POLS 103 MBU Week 7 Dropping in on the Missouri Supreme Court Response Week 7: Dropping in on the Missouri Supreme Court Please respond using 100 words or

POLS 103 MBU Week 7 Dropping in on the Missouri Supreme Court Response Week 7: Dropping in on the Missouri Supreme Court

Please respond using 100 words or more.

Note to students: be sure that you scroll far enough in the below to see all three videos.

Now, let’s step in front of the Missouri Supreme Court (Links to an external site.) building, with the motto inscribed on its edifice (Links to an external site.), “THE LAW IT HAS HONORED US MAY WE HONOR IT,” and let us consider that court’s significance, as we read about it, and about other Missouri courts, in Chapter 5 of Fulton and Brekke. Let’s start with that motto inscribed on the very building in which the court meets. What is meant by such inscriptions? That question was answered thus by then-Missouri Chief Justice Michael A. Woolf, in a column in 2006:

The Courts’ Ideals Are Carved in Stone.pdf

Read Justice Woolf’s little column with care. What key principles are literally carved in stone at the Missouri Supreme Court building, and why?

Now, consider the famous “Missouri Plan,” for which the state is known, which has been designed to ensure that Missouri has competent, able judges. What do you make of this system? Is it effective? Watch the below, and give your analyses.