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American Government as government from the people, by the people and to the people

has being the believe of many of the people who live in the united state of America

whether a citizen of non-citizen. Since the beginning of life, humans have had absolute

power over themselves and what they say, what they do, and areas that they inhabit. Over

time the concept of government was developed and refined and some of this absolute

power was given away to the government, which in turn gave it back to the people with

certain limitations. This limitation that the government puts on people and set with value

which is then what make the law that is set to govern a community or a certain

geographical area of which the law is meant to be implemented.

United State of American is very distinguished from the rest of the world, and this

is mainly focus on the law of the land. The united constitution is said to be the oldest

constitution in the world. A Constitution of a country is a written laws and regulation that

is set to govern the land. The United State Constitution is an inextricable law of which no

one is able to escape from. Although, as powerful as this law is, many fail to obey it, and

those that tend to obey the law still often get caught up in the system. People In United

State of America face this judicial system differently and all this different experience will

be expressed for better understanding.

Justice is blind in what the Lady of Justice stands for, but over the years many

judges have being some way partial in making there judgment. Since many of the

appointed judges make judgment based on what they believe to be constitutional, based

on their own interpretation of the constitution. It is very known that the fathers who sign

the constitution may have general believe on the constitution, but there is no thought that

they all interpret the constitution differently. If the founding fathers interpret this
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differently, surely the judges who are point to interpret this supreme law of United State

will also interpret the law very different. This interpretation brings us to the idea that

what the law is based on each individual. We might have a general believe to what the

law is but every one will interpret the law based on what they want to believe and will

ignore every single thing that they really don’t want to hear.

The founding father doesn’t want the state and the federal government to make

law that isn’t constitutional, so they create a judicial review, which gave the Supreme

Court power to invalidate any state or federal law it considers inconsistent with the

Constitution. The fourteenth amendment, when it says “All persons born or naturalized in

the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States

and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall

abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State

deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to

any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” tries to provide

protection to the citizen of America but decline the same right from those that live in

American.

Millie Simpson as many other American, expressed the law of the United

State Based on her experience with the law. Her experience of the law tend to shape her

future experience even though there is no enough evidence to support this, but the little

we know about her case could help make a reliable conclusion. Millie went into the court

with the general idea that says “speak the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” She went

into the courtroom with no knowledge of how the court system works. She pleaded guilty
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to not having car insurance, without knowing that she has pleaded guilty to the other

charges of running away from an accident scene. Again like every other people with little

or know knowledge of the court will do, she accepts all the fine and sentencing giving to

her. She did her community service even though she know that she is innocent, pays all

the fine s just because she felt guilty for not having insurance. Millie Simpson didn’t have

any grudge against the judicial system. She thought “the judge had been persuaded by her

story when he seemed to record her explanation” Millie Simpson assumed that her story

have convinced the judge and what ever judgment the judge carries is fear to her. She

chooses not to speak during the hearing, thinking that her appearance alone with the

reading of her last court statement is sufficient enough to provoke the judge to favor her.

Millie touch base on the idea of Selective Reading, she said “some of them probably

don’t even read the paper, they just read what they need to read to find our why you are

there.” (pg 9) Judges are there to look into a whole situation, weighing both site and

knowing deep about a certain case. But instead they ignore some of the relevant issue of a

case or even show up to the bench without any prior idea of what kind of chase they were

earring. Judges should get to know about they cases in a way that they won’t be bias

before sitting on the bench.

The Supreme Court want to create a court that people will care about. Individual

interpret the law differently, which then mean that everyone the law as he or she

understand it. People view (interpretation) on what value of constituency and impartial

mean are based on individual experience. When a case is taken to court, the view of the

person who wins the case is different from the person who losses. The looser tend to view

what ever the court decision is as unjust while the winner will talk favorably about the
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court. A murderer sent to prison for killing certainly know justice is serve cause he

deserve it. While an innocent person sent to prison for killing will view the law as

impartial and unjust.

The legal institution is design to provide a fair and impartial judgment to all cases

regardless of social status, or ethnicity. It turns out that fairness are determine each

individually, what is fair for each person is different in perception of fairness of the other.

Social status affect one case at time, the different between being able to avoid to pay for a

diligent attorney and the state appoint a public law to defend a case always affect the out

come of it. Millie Simpson did not see the judicial system working for her benefit until

she get her own lawyer who did all required fighting for her case. Millie last the fist trial,

only because the attorney did not try his or her best to help Millie in the situation of

which she finds herself.

The supreme law, which is the constitution, prevents the judges from being partial when

making decision on a particular case. This values of constituency is sometime over look

by player of the judicial system. A perfect example is when a police official changes the

story around at the court of law. This idea create disbelieve on the system for people like

Rita Michaels

Very often people caught into the judicial system just as Millie Simpson, and lack

of knowledge of what the court room process is make they get convicted for crimes they

do not commit. On the other side, there are people who known the law make use of the

law when they wish to and also define the judicial system to what they want to believe in.

Dwayne Franklin is set as an example in the book. Dwayne sees the law as tools that are

there to protect each individual. He uses the judicial system to protect himself, his family
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and his neighborhood. Dwayne explains that he is more “willing than others to go

through the legal channel.”(pg 70) Whenever Dwayne believes someone is in the wrong,

he will take him or her to court. Dwayne know his way around the law, he state that often

he might chose not to take some one to court, giving the reason that “chances are for one

case you might have to go back to or three times. It’s a waste of time; time is money.” He

added that he “chose not to take the people to court because they get to put on probation.”

Dwayne know how much time and money it cost to got to court, so he tend not to get

involve with the court room too much, but will call the law enforcement department if he

notice any thing wrong in his community. Dwayne Franklin’s sees the judicial system as

the way things is done. He agree that court are very expensive, but since the judicial

system is the way to get things done one need to used them whenever it necessary.

Ultimately, People tend to stay far away from the judicial system, no one like

dealing with the law. Many people do thing with the hope of not getting caught. A good

example is majority of Winona State University student that are under the age of twenty-

one tend to drink ever weekend. When any of their friends is drunk to the extent of

calling the cops for help, experience keeps many from calling. They are often afraid of

getting evicted for drinking under age. Many of the sorts of situation are out there in the

society were by people choice not to report any thing to law enforcement because they

don’t want to get tie into it. Media are known to be the most influential system in United

State of America. Many will argues that the media shape the life of people in the society.

This argument to some extents it true, but they forget the fact that if a channels is

showing things about the society that a particular person doesn’t like they often change

the channel to what they certainly agrees with.