POLI 2051 : Poli Sci 2051 Final Exam Review
Document Summary
Ii of the constitution: legislative courts: highly specialized federal courts created by congress under the authority of article i of the constitution. How judges are selected: constitution authorizes the president to nominate and the senate to confirm, process is the same for all federal judges. The way the nominee is chosen differs according to the level of federal court involved: there are no legal or constitutional requirements, a general qualification is that the nominee be a lawyer. Civil liberties: (what government cannot do: freedoms guaranteed to individual, take the form of negative restraints on government, usually asserted by the haves in society, ex: freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, etc. Civil liberties: the bill of rights in context. Politics for the first 125 years after it was adopted: state power was not unlimited however. If you felt your state was wrong, as mr.
