Learn By Doing

Crystal J. Mack

PAD 525 Assignment 1

Dr. Ronald E. Fitzgerald

January 18, 2015

Introduction

According to Szypszak (2012) "the law should not be encrypted, nor require a lawyer to decipher. Legal research is not locating a definitive answer to a simple question; productive research is dependent upon "good sense" that a formal rule might exist" (pg. 307). Denoted in Szypszak (2012) an approach many researchers utilize to interpret the language of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. legal system in order to explain the principles and process of constitutional, regulatory, and administrative laws at the federal and state levels is using the "case" approach. The methodology of research for this paper is using technology and information resources for researching cases,...