Introduction to Judicial Independence

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Program Information

Program: Judicial Independence in the New World
Segment Number: 2 (Watch entire program)
Duration: 00:02:00
Year Produced: 2009
Description:

The court system is an ever-changing, evolving entity and there are key moments of history when Virginia’s people and its judiciary made their everlasting impressions on our country.

The court system is an ever-changing and evolving entity, and there are key moments of history when Virginia's people and its judicial system made everlasting impressions on the country. JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN THE NEW WORLD tells the story of the development of the court system in the early years of our nation's history. Historians take us back to the Court Days and Pre-Revolution and Post-Revolution periods to explain the rule of law and the basics of the court system we know today.

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Transcript

MOS:
You know, suppose we didn’t have a judicial system. Then you would have chaos.

WOS:
We don’t want to have law breakers. We want to make sure that all of the cities and populace in our nation respects the law and understands the laws, how it’s interpreted properly by the judicial system. And how it’s enforced locally.

I would like to think most of us are patriotic and we love our country and we want to follow the laws. So we have a desire to follow the laws of the nation and respect our judicial system.

WOS2:
I imagine at the beginning they were pretty close to what they had in England. And it would be interesting to know how our American system evolved separately from them and how it’s different now. I mean, if it is.

Narration:
Virginia has always been at the heart of our nation's history; the Jamestown settlement laid the foundation for our country’s government, and with that, the beginning of America’s judicial system as we know it. The court system is an ever-changing, evolving entity and there are key moments of history when Virginia’s people and its judiciary made their everlasting impressions on our country.

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