History and Development of Law and the Courts
The purpose of this essay is to analyze a brief history of the American Court system.
This essay will go over the beginning stages of our country starting with the 13 colonies and the how punishments were determined before the revolution. Then, the major factors that helped develop our correction systems and court systems from 1765-1865. And finally, discussing how the American court system has changed, yet still has deeper scars that effect only some of the American population today. Although long and tedious, our history has important ideas and roots that still run through our modern laws today, including laws that aren’t so relevant anymore.
From Escaping Great Britain to Now
Starting as far …show more content…
Punishments such as branding, torture, public humiliation, and whipping were tools used by jails and prisons to control inmates to behave. Many people from foreign countries who visited America sometimes liked what they observed, while others weren’t so impressed and were horrified by some of the methods used to command inmates. After a while some states started to experiment with punishments and eventually started discovering different degrees of punishment such as degrees of murder which measured how they would be punished based how they committed murder. Capital punishment was utilized frequently, but after establishing determinate punishments for certain crimes, capital punishment began to decrease. Over time, our laws kept changing to keep up with societal norms. Unfortunately, even when times change, people don’t change with it. After, 1865 when slavery ended, prisons started filling up with black Americans. Since, they couldn’t be controlled on plantations they were instead discriminated in alternate ways. And this is still true in America …show more content…
The American court system, in theory, is fine for now. Yet, deep in the roots of our system is a racist, sexist agenda that can’t be masked. That doesn’t go to say that our system isn’t good, it’s just not working in the favor of victims as well as it should. To name one law that has caused more damaged than it’s repaired: The-Three-Strikes Law, in which offenders could get life in prison after three felonies. This law is detrimental because in this day in age even though marijuana is legal in some states, other states make it a point to arrest offenders carrying more than two grams of weed. This is a law that is no longer relevant in modern
The purpose of this essay is to analyze a brief history of the American Court system.
This essay will go over the beginning stages of our country starting with the 13 colonies and the how punishments were determined before the revolution. Then, the major factors that helped develop our correction systems and court systems from 1765-1865. And finally, discussing how the American court system has changed, yet still has deeper scars that effect only some of the American population today. Although long and tedious, our history has important ideas and roots that still run through our modern laws today, including laws that aren’t so relevant anymore.
From Escaping Great Britain to Now
Starting as far …show more content…
Punishments such as branding, torture, public humiliation, and whipping were tools used by jails and prisons to control inmates to behave. Many people from foreign countries who visited America sometimes liked what they observed, while others weren’t so impressed and were horrified by some of the methods used to command inmates. After a while some states started to experiment with punishments and eventually started discovering different degrees of punishment such as degrees of murder which measured how they would be punished based how they committed murder. Capital punishment was utilized frequently, but after establishing determinate punishments for certain crimes, capital punishment began to decrease. Over time, our laws kept changing to keep up with societal norms. Unfortunately, even when times change, people don’t change with it. After, 1865 when slavery ended, prisons started filling up with black Americans. Since, they couldn’t be controlled on plantations they were instead discriminated in alternate ways. And this is still true in America …show more content…
The American court system, in theory, is fine for now. Yet, deep in the roots of our system is a racist, sexist agenda that can’t be masked. That doesn’t go to say that our system isn’t good, it’s just not working in the favor of victims as well as it should. To name one law that has caused more damaged than it’s repaired: The-Three-Strikes Law, in which offenders could get life in prison after three felonies. This law is detrimental because in this day in age even though marijuana is legal in some states, other states make it a point to arrest offenders carrying more than two grams of weed. This is a law that is no longer relevant in modern