Discussion Questions

Order Description
Can the following questions be answered?

Courts and Law

Please discuss whether Courts are governmental or political institutions, including in your response factors that support your position.

Please identify three (3) symbols that Courts use to separate them from politics, including in your response the importance of each symbol.

Please state the three (3) principal roles or functions of Courts.

Please state the difference in trial court and appellate courts.

Please identify the three (3) most commonly used legal systems.

Based on your response above, please state the legal system that is most common in Islamic countries AND the law upon which this system is based.
Voisine, et al. vs. U.S.

Please state the central issue in Voisine.

Please identify the actions in Voisine and state whether they are legal, governmental, or political.

Please state the criminal policy addressed by Congress that laid the groundwork for the statutory law.

Judicial Review

Please state whether the U.S. Supreme Court has the authority to review acts of Congress to determine their constitutionality. Based upon your response, please
identify the governing principled document that allows this authority.

Please state which Judges are established under Article III of the U. S. Constitution, including in your response the type of the cases that are heard by these Judges

Please state the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that Chief Justice Warren Burger discusses in his essay and the doctrine that emanated from this decision,
including in your response, the year of the decision, an identification of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time and the then-sitting President.
Legal Representation

identify the accrediting entity for law schools in the United States.

state the mandatory requirement to practice law.

identify five (5) practice areas for lawyers.

state the five (5) primary activities of lawyers.