Read in text pp. 254-280

Judicial Branch check out the links on this page

Know the following terms:  appellate jurisdiction,  briefs, civil law, common law, concurring opinions, criminal law, defendant, dissenting opinions, equity, felonies, injunction, judicial activism, judicial review, judicial self-restraint, majority opinion, misdemeanors, original jurisdiction, plaintiff, stare decisis.  statutory law, writ of certiorari; writ of mandamus

The materials in this chapter will be part of Test Two to be taken Oct. 27- Nov.2

FORMAT OF RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
      1. Select one of the following questions.
      2. Your answer should be at least 200 words.
      3. Choose  a simple font (arial, courier), font size 10 or 12.
      4.  Be sure to save your work.
      5. Your work should be a Word document or saved as a Rich text file,Microsoft Office 2007 – If you are using this new version of Word you may need to save your documents as Microsoft Office 2003 documents with the .doc rather than the .docx extension.  If you are using Microsoft Works or WordPerfect word processing program, save your file and change the “save file as” to Rich Text Format.  This will allow your document to be opened by your instructor using any word processing program.     
      6. Send this question and the others from Chapters 7,8 and 9 as a single document using the WebCT Assignment link.
      7.  There is a five ( 5) point penalty for late work.  Work will not be accepted two (2) days after the date due.

GRADING RESPONSE QUESTION:
  1. on the content of the response.
  2.  the mechanics of the answer.  (the Edited English standard will be used see below). 
  3. 20 points for the question.

Select one of the following Response Questions: Due Oct. 17 ( Fri. 12:00 noon). 
 

1.  Describe the role of the Chief Justice--include his role in writing and assigning opinions, the conference day.

2.  Using the Court's decisions in Plessy v.Ferguson;  Brown v. Board of Education; Regents of U. California v. Bakke. discuss and describe how the Court changes its mind with regard to was is constitutional or unconstitutional.

3.  The Court is often a source of controversy--the Court is too liberal, too conservative, too activist, too deliberate.  What should the role of the Court be?  why?

4.  Should Justices nominated for the Supreme Court be subject to  scrutiny by the Senate? why/why not?

Grading Standard  Edited American English is the form of English which is used in newspapers and magazines, in textbooks and fiction works, and in memos and letters.

Type I:  Gross Errors (-10 pts. each)

              A. fragment (ex.   Because I had a flat tire.)

              B. lack of subject/verb agreement (ex. The man were having a nervous breakdown.)

              C. fused/run-on sentence (ex. I had no choice I had to take the test.)

              D. incorrect tense or verb form (ex. The boy gone to the store for his father.)

Type II:  Major Errors (-5 pts. each)

              A. comma between subject and verb(comma fault) (ex. The mother,gave her son the apple.)

                 B. comma splice (ex. We went to the store,we  got some bread and milk.)

                 C. failure to show possession (ex. My husband pants are dirty.)

                  D. no indentation at beginning of paragraph and incorrect paragraph form.

Type III: Minor Errors ( -2 pts. each)

               A. misspelled words or incorrect capitalization

                B. misused homonyms or words used incorrectly

               C. commas added unnecessarily or commas lacking

               D. punctuation missing or incorrect

                E. incorrect pronoun agreement

               F. misleading pronoun reference

               G. unnecessary shift of tense or person

               H. words left out/dangling or misplaced modifiers.

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