2011-04-08 11:19:02布魯斯
不只立法院在立法，行政、司法也都在立法（摘自美國法律入門教科書）
我翻出2000年在美國讀書的法律資料搜尋入門教科書，找到這一段：「公民課」告訴我們，立法機關才能制定法律，法院解釋法律，行政執行法律......但這太簡化了。事實上，三個部門都在立法！
這是入門書，不是偉大的解構主義或後現代或法律現實主義者大師寫的文字。是告訴每個新手法律人，不要太簡化了。
原文如下：
Returning to the "civics course" introduction to American government, another axiom holds that legislatures make laws, courts interpret laws, and executives execute (i.e., enforce) laws. [T]his view vastly oversimplifies the functions of each branch.
In fact, for the legal researcher there are three branches of government that make law, but they are not the three on which civics courses focus. Instead, a legal researcher sees these three branges:
(1) the legislature
(2) the administrative agencies
(3) the judiciary
Each of these "branches" makes a different kind of law. Legislatures create statutory law by passing bills, which become law when signed by the executive. Agencies create administrative law, consisting of rules and decisions issued by the agencies. Finally, the judiciary makes common law, sometimes informally referred to as judge-made law, which if found in court decisions.
Christopher G. Wren & Jill R. Wren, The Legal Research Manual: A Game Plan for Legal Research and Analysis 3 (1999).
對了，這本書我最近一直找不到，這是以前影印的斷簡殘編......請問是哪位同學借走了？