American Legal Culture Study Help

Posted January 8th, 2009 by
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Here are several general American Legal Culture Questions to be answered. If you're up for the task, you'll be $50 richer. Expires: 10pm, Nov. 14, 2002 (1) What are the elements of a legal system? (structure, culture, etc) (2) What is American Legal Culture? Why do people study it? (3) Are we a nation subject to the rule of law or rule of men? (4) Discuss the concepts of higher law, limitied government, due process and consent of the governed as the basis of legal obligation as reflected in American legal culture and history. Examples. (5) Discuss the roots of the American Legal System and sources of American Law (inherited culture and indigenous environment) How has the latter impacted the former? (industrialization? Urbanization?) (6) Why was the Mayflower Compact significant? (7) Why do we need law? (8) What is constitutional law? (9) Waht is constitutionalism? (10) The Salem Witch trials were an important point in American Legal history and a coninuing part of American legal and political culture. Discuss. (11) How did the American revolution and the American Civil War effect the development of American Law? (12) What is wrong with the American legal system and how can it be improved? (13) How is the criminal justice system reflective of American democracy? (14) Why is the US a republic and not a democracy? (15) How is the American court system organized? (16) Discuss how current events reflect the tension between rights and responsibiltiies, security and liberty, individualism and community (17) Define, misdeamenaor, felony, civil vs. criminal law, prosecutor, US Attorney, appellate, Artice III, Brown v. Bd of Ed, Miranda, rights if the accused, "jurismania" (18) What are the key differences between the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? (19) What are the 3 fundamental responsibiltiies of the US Supreme Court? (20) Was 12 angry men an example of jury nullification? (21) Explain the differences in the selection and appointment of state and federal jusges and prosecutors - What are some pros and cons (22) Erin Brocovich reflects American Legal Culture and Tannen's views on its problems how?

If you had asked all these questions seperately at, say, $5 - $10 each, you might have had a better chance of getting them answered, Any one researcher might not fancy doing them all, but as a group we would probably have covered them quicker, given that some of them require a lot of work in "essay" type answers. (The reason I didn't answer is that I'm not American, so was a bit vague on some of them, but there were quite a few I could have done if they were seperate questions) willie-ga

Who's "Tannen"?

I don't expect 1 page long answers for each question. Some are just definitions. This is geared to anyone who has ONE hour to make it happen and knows a little about the American Legal System.

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