LAWS 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harvard Law Review
27 Apr 2019
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President obama in 2017: harvard law review (not on the exam) He talks about how the criminal justice system perpetuates. In this article, he discusses how important it is for members of society to be aware of the impact of criminal law. The most important office in a democracy is that of the citizen . Don"t leave criminal law to the lawyers. It is the legitimate exercise of state power. It exists where the limitation of liberty for the purposes of punishment is legitimate when it"s done for a proper process/reason. Exercise state power/force where it is legitimate. Criminal law - legitimate exercise of state force against an individual that engages liberty. The bronchos case: it is relevant because the criminal law power is federal power. The change of criminal law changes across the country. In canada, criminal law is federal jurisdiction - constitution act, 1867 s. 91 (27)
