POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - David Easton, Precedent, Private Law
10 Feb 2014
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Search tool needed for class : lawsource: definitions and types of law. Attorney general v. bedford (2013: politics or law, constitution > statute > common law. First thing to know about cases - adversarial, there is always two sides. Interveners apply to have a say in the case yet don"t have a consequence for the result of the case. Not all cases are unanimous sometimes judged decent and sometimes they concur. There is also a majority when more then 5 agree. Common law (judge made, judges acting on their own) statute law ( the government of the day, always trumps common law), constitutional law ( every statue and common law must conform to the constitutional law) Political science has attitudeism many say that you can come to any result from simple justifying it, throw away existing laws. Law and politics: magna carta (1215), s. 39, rule per legem terrae ( according to the law of the land").
