Government #2
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- Texas Courts
- level of complexity!
- level of complexity
- overlapping structure with overlapping jurisdictions, 5 layer system, creations of the constitutions & statute.
- muninciple court
- "judge judy courts" (DWI, speeding, etc)
- de novo
- like new (re try cases)
- 2 TX supreme courts
- civial cases, court of criminal appeals (criminal cases)
- civil liberties
- personal freedoms that gov't can't abridge, protections against improper gov't action
- 14 amdendment
- suggest possibility of change or interpreting the constitution
- due process of law
- fair treatment, fairly applied procedures
- Gitlow v New York
- first example of SELECTIVE INCORPORATION (trying to overthrow gov't) FREEDOM OF SPEECH NOW APPLIED TO THE STATES
- selective incorperation
- takes one case at a time & applies BOR amendment it has to do with