Assignment:
Public Law and Administration
Questions & Key Terms
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
1. What is the 1st Amendment? What is the 4thAmendment? Does the 1st and 4th Amendments really handcuffed the public administrator in doing their job? Give at least two examples.
2. Viewing law as a system, what are some of the inputs needed by a public administrator to be process in order to satisfy a need and resolve a problem? Use your imagination. Give at least two examples.
3. What is legal reasoning? How does it affect the stability of our legal system?
4. What is a "hearing" and how does it differ from a "contested case hearing? Give an example.
5. What does "statutory interpretations" of the Constitution involve?
6. Why did it become important for Congress and the state legislatures to adopt administrative procedural acts?
7. Why Study History?
Key Terms: Please define
1. Jurisprudence
2. Rule according to a higher law
3. amicus curiae
4. Statutory interpretation
5. common law
6. Administrative law
7. Federalist Papers
8. Administrative Procedure Act (APA),
9. Adjudication
10. Progressive Era: 1897 - 1920
11. Stock Market Crash
12. Great Depression
13. War on Poverty
14. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
15. United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Attachment:- The Law in Action.rar