- 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.
After reading the text and my understand, I believe the ways in which the court system better suited to protect the individual than are the elected branches of government such as congress and the president is that it’s administer justice fairly and impartially within the jurisdiction established by the constitution and congress, they’re designed to be independent ( the judiciary) , the branches of government are mostly along with the influenced and they have to get their second opinion which the judiciary they’re independent. An example would be judges are responsible for making the decisions based on the law and not any political considerations.
2) Think about how federal judges get to become judges – unlike Presidents, Mayors and members of Congress (and other legislatures), they are not elected, but rather appointed. Many Americans have thus called the federal courts system, and especially the Supreme Court, anti-democratic PLACES IN OUR GOVERNMENT. 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 “Federalist #10”, and which social class plays a leading role in our government system.)
Yes I do believe the Supreme Court is an anti-democratic part of our government because it ensures that people have equal justice under the law. The reason for this way of choosing judges in federal courts is because it can be fair enough for everyone and the deathly people tend to believe that they don’t want the poor to have too much power over the rights and the government, they don’t want the less wealthy people to have a “saying” into anything that involve the government so they believe selecting someone that is more highly of having the ability to be apart of the Supreme Court would benefit them in some way as possible, mainly because having a larger amount of people would be unresponsive for others and would mostly give everyone the same power and levels and for the wealthy people they don’t want that, they rather to have all the power.
