Comparing The Justice Systems Of Canadian With The United States Legal System

Comparing the justice system of Canadian with the United States legal systems we find some similarities as well differences in the form of the legal system. However, viewing the Canadian criminal justice system it is somewhat separate in its combined judicial legal system where all the courts share the same system to include Canada’s Supreme Court which has the final decision authority throughout Canada. On the other hand, the United States has two parallel and independent judicial systems. The federal judicial system applies to federal law where the state judicial system is independent at the state level. The Substantive law in both Canada as well as in the United States is the Constitutions. Canada’s Constitution is a combination of both

In some cases, the elections are opinionated, where the judge nominee is associated furthermore has the support of a political party. Each state procedural law has its own requirement for the standards for the election of their judge. For an example, the state of California elections, any qualified lawyer is qualified to run for a seat in the judicial office at election. The procedure is that of a non-partisan which provides that if a vacancy was to arises between elections, then the governor has the approving authority to appoint the judge. Election of judges in the procedural law maintains the supervision of justice consistent with dominating the social ideology. The known problem with this type of system comes with situations that lead to social problems, mostly if the judge that was elected make his/her decisions for the sole purpose “for the vote”, ("Procedural Law,"

The creation of the night watch was from Boston in 1636, New York in 1658 lastly Philadelphia in 1700. This created policing style was not a particularly effective crime reduction procedure. These people that was selected as Watchmen more often fell asleep or where drunk on duty. From the beginning, the American policing system has been associated not to the problem of crime, but to emergencies as well as the difficulties of the United States political-economy, (Potter, 2013) The focus of the United States has been that of economics also of politics, which are not crime or crime control. Looking to the 21st century, the new emphasis has changed to science with the technology advantages in policing, as it relates to societies surveillance; there is a new movement of militarization replication in the spread of tactical teams in the policing profession. Policing has a new perspective with the emphasis on community relations through community policing. Community policing has led to the organization of stakeholders with policing agencies, (Gaines, Kappeler, and Vaughn