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How Judges make the Law.
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HOW JUDGES MAKE THE LAW As you know judges are quite powerful people and always seem to have a lot of authority regarding the law and the outcome of potentially important cases. Even though they seem to have all this authority it is not necessarily true. Judges do not have the power to make laws. Therefore laws come about through different methods. Laws are introduced, voted on and then made into law by the legislature and congress etc.. What judges do though, is that they interpret the law to what they think the legislatures were thinking when they passed the law. Judges can also rule that a law is unconstitutional but they cannot change it. When a judge interprets the law or rules that it is unconstitutional it is then binding on other judges in his circuit. Usually the elected officials with the assistance of their civil servants write the law...
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