Your textbook readings this week focused on federalism, which is the division of government into three layers: the national, state, and local.
We looked at the basic documents of each: the constitutions - or charters - and their statutory codes and current news that illustrates their basic functions.
And we looked at the basic budgets on the national and state levels, lesser so with local governments, in order to understand how they relate with each other.
Hopefully you should have an understanding of what each level is responsible for.
As a reminder, we looked at the following in class:
- National Constitution
- Texas Constitution
- Local Charters
- U.S. Code
- Texas Statutory Code
- Local Ordinances
- The U.S. Budget
- Texas Fiscal Size-Up
For Week 4
- Civil Liberties
- Substantive Liberties
- Procedural Liberties
- Habeas Corpus
- Bills of Attainder
- Ex Post Facto Laws
- U.S. Bill of Rights
- Texas Bill of Rights
- 14th Amendment.
- Selective Incorporation.
- Criminal Justice Policy
