Article 1- Legislative Branch

Article 2 - Executive Branch, President, The Cabinent, Federal Agencies

Article 3 - Judicial Branch: courts

-on size of pop of state

-number of congressional districts

435 members

2 senators from each state regardless of pop.

100 senators

Congressional lawmaking

Draft Bills from members of Congress to:

Both houses:

-House of Reps

-Introduction Senate

the member wants to and is authorized to move forward.

-Date and vote-whether to push the bill to full committee

Full Commitee- votes for a go--Goes to the floor

edit

3. Floor Activity

-If proposal passes committee goes to full house 

House of Reps/Senate

House of Reps- can control the how long the debate goes for

Senate- has filibuster

Bills are voted on to go Conference Committee

4.Conference Committee

(after floor action)

A bill becomes law if signed by the President or if not signed within 10 days and Congress is in session

1. If Congress adjourns before the 10 days and the President has not signed the bill then it does not become law ("Pocket Veto.")
2. If the President vetoes the bill it is sent back to Congress with a note listing his/her reasons. The chamber that originated the legislation can attempt to override the veto by a vote of two-thirds of those present. If the veto of the bill is overridden in both chambers then it becomes law
3. If it sits unsigned by the president for more than 10 days it become a law without the president's sign.

These theories, 

-contract between democratic equality and market inequality

Max Weber

"Modern Soceity" 

requires laws ?

organized around rationality.

laws must be:

-predictable

-calculable

-written

-Calvinism and predestination

Challenges "lez far" market will correct itself

-Capitalism requires "good" and hard workers

-"elective affinity" between capitialism, Calvinsism, and rationality

Argues that the traditional Society is organized and planned society

-individuals become more "modern" individual becomes more important--pivotal

-rise of individualism, you require contracts to guide those relationships 

-indiv developed rights and obligations

Law-repressive

Modern Soceity org, ard division of labor

Driving force

-you will not be penalized severely but

development of divsion of labor

Vagracy Law 

(Chambliss)

Legal concepts=human construction

-Law first passed in 1349. New Legal concept

-passed in feudal England in 1349 was designed to deal with scarity of workers and eskyrocketing wages

-made it illegal to refuse work

-ceiling wages

-Rural, agricultural

-Two main classes: feudal lords

-By 1349 feudal economy was transforming

-counts by race to reflect political interest and understandings of minorityhood

-Critical race theory- "race is not objective, inherent or fixed"

1970s first weighs on

___________?

drug policy- Nixons

-Eliminates mandatory minimun sentences for drug offenders

-reduced penalty for first-times possession of marijuana to a misdemeanor.

-

the media goes to town with this, 

this crack babies, black

-its access

1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act

1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act

-Moved through Congress really quick

-Raised level of punishment for possession of crack cocaine

-Dealing with "war" on drugs"

-moral panic

Multiple forms of law: 

-Congressional laws

-Administrative rules

-Norms, practices

Muliple legal system

-federal

-state

-local courts

-administrative

-international tribunals

-Civil Liberties

+Freedom of speech

+Freedom of religion

-Civil Rights

+Trial by jury

+Voting

-Statutory rights

+enacted by the Congress

-Equality

+14th Amendment to the U.S. constitution

+Due process rights

-6,7,8

-Federal District Courts: trial courts

-Circuit Courts: appellate court

-U.S. Supreme Court

Marbury vs. Madision

that gave the supreme court power of judiciary review

-All crimes against the US

-Civil actions arising under the U.S. Consitution

-Diversity casesL suits between citizens of two states

-Admirality

-review of enforcement orders and actions of regulatory agencies

Standing

-In the appropriate court for the case in dispute

Case and Controversy

-Individual bringing the  case is directly affected by another individual

Writ of Certiorari:currently means an order by a higher court directing a lower court, 

2. Oral Arguement

Distinguished the precedent

-Activist have no right to picket on private mall property

-changed content of the speech

-

Hudgens identical to Amalgamted (pickted mall first precedent)

***Decision 

-Went against free speech right of union

-Reasoning = Lloyd decision couldnt have gone against

Lloyd precedent

-positivists studied criminal

-related crime to causes WITHIN the criminal

-Criminal is criminal bc different in some fundamental way

Early 20th century

The Kallikak family

"A study of Feeblemindedness"

hereditary and major cause of crime

Challenged claim that crime was heredity

-Focuses on changes of society

=industrialization

=urbanization

=Immigration

=Economic inequality

Used city as a laboraty

Social disorganization = unstable

it becomes a terrian of little othinc

"transitios bc peopel moving in and out

crime most likely in particular parts of the city

Shaw and Mckay

(Social Determinism theory)

There were too many differnet types of areas

-Theorized disorg but found diversity

-Relied on offical stats, focused on those who's been caught

Focuses on development of  Theory of Crime

Merton:

All societies are organized around-

"Culturally defined goals"

Social structure that "defines, regulates, and controls acceptable modes of achieving goals

Merton Condition

"effective equilibrium"

American Society

-extreme emphasis on goal of accumulation of wealth;

-limited opportunity to realize wealth through social structure.

Merton 

"Anomie"

A response to ineffective equilibrium 

-not being in control of one's destiny as defined by society

Mismatch between goals and structure explains crime in society

-the consequences of that is various kinds of responses to it.

Norms: Defines prescriptions and prohibitions

Learn waht to do and how to do it 

-attitude and skills

-Opportunity is two sided

Differential Association

"Subcultures of crime"

-Criminal values

-Conflict/violence

-Retreatist/Consumption

Uniform crime rates- reported by the FBI

Victimization rates as reported by the bureau of justice statistics

officers- good people, sometimes flawed with human vulneerabilites-"just like us"

==Suspects: commited a crime, to be sure, but shown with a "human" element.

Suspect: highly marginalized, amoral, almost always black, a situation of his own making

Cops: good men commited to a career of servce to the public

place: outwe rims of urbal sprawl

L and O - indivudals can be changed but cause is with individuals

Tabloid - determined; hard-wired