Study Sheet for Final

Definitions

• Tyranny of the Majority
• "Excesses of Democracy"
• General Will
• Rule of Individual Wills
• Fiduciary
• Mediation
• Stochastocracy
• "reasonable man"
• advisoraly system - one party against another
• technocracy
• men's rea and actus reus - guilty mind and guilty act

People

• Alexis de Toqueville
• President Jackson
• Fuller
• Hart
• Blackwater
• Rousseau
• Locke

Topics

• The Legal Profession
• Law & the adversarial process
• Juries
  • Jury Selection
  • Jury Nullification
  • Jury Makeup
  • Possible Decline of the Jury
  • Bias in jury
  • Knowledge of case
  • age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, political party
  • Jury be peers (same class)
  • History of Jury w/ Athens and the King
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Technology and Law

Ideas
Jury find facts, judges find the law
Is jury the best way in the judicial system or is there a better way?
-What does being a citizen mean in a judicial sense?
-Working for me v. representing me? -elected public officials
-total v. partial enforcement
Court Cases discussed
Duncan v. Louisiana - 14th amendment equal protection - federal law troupes state law
Blakeley v. Washington
Torc Cases