Judges saw themselves as merely declaring the law which had at all times theoretically existed, and not as making the law. Therefore, a judge could reject another choose’s opinion as merely an incorrect assertion of the law, in the way that scientists frequently reject one another’s conclusions as incorrect statements of the legal guidelines of science. Unlike the situation with the states, there is no plenary reception statute on the federal stage that continued the widespread law and thereby granted federal courts the power to formulate legal precedent like their English predecessors. Federal courts are solely creatures of the federal Constitution and the federal Judiciary Acts. Several legal scholars have argued that the federal judicial power to resolve “cases or controversies” essentially contains the ability to resolve the precedential impact of those cases and controversies.
It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subjects to Federal regulation. Each … Read More
