POLS 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tax Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Public Law
10 Feb 2014
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Chapter 1 introduction to politics, law and judicial process. Politics: make decisions that distribute, creating rules, how authoritative decisions are made. Focuses on 2 interrelated subjects: process of making decisions, outcomes of decision making process. Law: natural law- for law to be valid, it has to be morally permissible, st. augustine, unjust law is no law at all. moral duties can be discovered in. Every person no matter what his or her political, social, or economic status, is considered to be equal before the law. International law rules that govern relationships and disputes between states or people, business and organizations in more than one state. Domestic law rules that are made by individual sovereign states for a given territory. Rules that govern of government system (presidential/parliamentary) and functioning of government, relationships between citizens or groups and the state including rights and freedoms, in federal systems define the division of powers and jurisdiction between national and regional governments.
