Danny Patrick
11/09/12
Analytical Review
Depatrick6705@eagle.fgcu.edu
Fall 2012/ CRN 81620
Throughout Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice Sytem, there is comprehensive information regarding the U.S. Constitution, the criminal justice system, and the complexities of each. Everything we do in our lives on a daily basis revolves around the U.S. Constitution. You first begin to learn about the historical overview of how the Constitution came to be and an overview of our country's legal system. It then examines the Supreme Court of the United States as the final word on any legal issues and a description of how to research the law. The focus then shifts to the guarantees of the Constitution to citizens and equal protection under the law and efforts to balance individual, state and federal rights. You then take in the basic freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment and gun control controversy arising from the Second Amendment.
English: Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the ...
English: Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia with...
English: Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin S...The text then dedicates an ample amount of time to the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, going in depth about certain issues pertaining to the criminal justice system like search and seizure, double jeopardy, and testifying against one-self. Remaining amendments that are covered would be the Sixth and the Eighth Amendment, which deals with citizens' due process rights. The book concludes with the remaining amendments and how additional amendments might come to be in the future.
A Matter of Interpretation is a very upfront and confrontational book. Antonin Scalia states that "The Rule of Law is essential to constitutional democracy", and throughout his book he addresses in many instances how judges should translate statutory and constitutional law. Scalia has a major issue with the deprivation of an evident philosophy of judicial decision making on the bench, in the academy, and amongst law schools. Scalia goes on about the statutory interpretation and...