{"id":1411,"date":"2022-10-30T22:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-introduction-to-american-government-artinian\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2022-10-30T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:59:04","slug":"discussion-board-11-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/2022\/10\/30\/discussion-board-11-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Board 11.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In what ways is the court system better suited to protect the individual, than are the elected branches of government (such as Congress and the President; or the Mayor of NYC and the NYC City Assembly)? Give an example to illustrate your argument.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Think about how federal judges get to become judges &#8211; unlike Presidents, Mayors and members of Congress (and other legislatures), they are not elected, but rather <em>appointed<\/em>.  Many Americans have thus called the federal courts system, and especially the Supreme Court, <strong>anti-democratic <em>places in our government. <\/em><\/strong>Do you agree that the Supreme Court, for example, is an anti-democratic part of our government? What could be the reason for this way of choosing judges in federal courts? (HINT: think about our discussion of &#8220;Federalist #10&#8221;, and which social class plays a leading role in our government system.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what ways is the court system better suited to protect the individual, than are the elected branches of government (such as Congress and the President; or the Mayor of NYC and the NYC City Assembly)? Give an example to illustrate your argument. 2. Think about how federal judges get to become judges &#8211; unlike&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-11-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0504d-introduction-to-american-government-fall-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}