HIST-UA 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Admiralty Law
31 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Founders wanted legislative branch to be most important, but also didn"t want it to become too powerful. 18 powers of congress written in article i. Provide for defense, naturalizing citizens, establishing post offices, securing patents and copyrights, establishing courts, and governing district of columbia. Elastic clause- congress can make all laws necessary and proper to carry out powers of article i. Congress then and now back then, not too many laws made, now much more. Members of congress live and work nearly year-round in d. c. Distrusted direct participation of people b/c thought they"d redistribute personal property. President"s powers are vague and open for interpretation. Now, presidents preside over many white house staff and federal bureaucracy. Two systems of courts: federal courts- power derived from. Constitution and federal laws, and state courts- state constitutions and state laws. Courts try cases involving u. s. laws, treaties with foreign nations, admiralty or maritime law, law of sea, or interpretations of the.
