Overview
Description
Major decisions of recent terms of the Supreme Court; their impact upon federal-state relations, the executive and legislative branches and contemporary social issues. (Satisfies the legislative requirement for the U.S. Constitution.)
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate the effect of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the States’ ability to develop public policies.
- analyze the effects of the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment’s due process and equal protection decisions State and Federal policy.
- assess the effect of Supreme Court decisions on the States’ ability to regulate private property.
- apply recent Supreme Court decisions to questions of minority rights.
- apply contemporary Supreme Court due process and equal protection decisions to a contemporary public policy.