Description
watch the following videos and integrate them with lecture/discussion material and respond to the following questions (1-2 paragraphs per question).
1. Define and Discuss the concept of judicial review and its importance to our constitutional system.
2. Discuss the judicial selection process. What criteria do presidents use when selecting Justices on the Supreme Court?
3. What are civil liberties? Give some specific examples of the most important civil liberties.
4. Discuss Ted Nugent's take on gun control. Do you think he has some good points or is he off his rocker?
5. Discuss 3 key events or developments in Civil Rights history that helped change the course of American history and politics.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: COURTS ROLE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
Courts Role on Civil Rights and Liberties
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COURTS ROLE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
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Judicial review is the court's action process of looking into laws and actions from other
branches of government, executive and legislature, to determine if they are constitutional. The
power to do this is not in the constitution but has been used by the courts after the case of
Marbury v. Madison in 1803 where Chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall, overrules
the writs on mandamus which was in the Act of 1789 deeming it unconstitutional (Benzine,
2015). Judicial review is important as it gives the judiciary the power to redefine laws based on
how it thinks the laws will shape the future of the nation.
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The Supreme Court judges are handed the job through a selection process that...
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