For the first argument, the timing system will be set according to the time reserved for rebuttal. For example, assume you have been allotted 20 minutes as the party to go first. If you tell the Court you intend...
USA Judiciary
The constitution of the state, and its several charters (Thomas Jefferson’s note on Virginia)
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Constitutions and ordinances' are used as synonimous. The term constitution has many other significations in physics and in politics; but in Jurisprudence, whenever it is applied to any act of the legislature, it invariably means a statute, law, or...
Hamilton knew that our Constitution establishes a democracy, but it does not establish a pure democracy. Rather, it establishes a democracy of a certain kind. It divides power, vertically between States and the federal government and horizontally among three...
Trial courts deal most directly with people—lawyers, of course, but also litigants, witnesses, jurors, court reporters, probation and pretrial services officers, interpreters, security personnel, and members of the public who have important rights of access to proceedings. Trial judges...