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III. Legal Structure and Legal Culture I. Introduction to Structure A. Common Trends -Bureaucratic structure increases causing complication which could not have been foreseen -Legislation develops which is outside the code: 1. Special Statutes) *Usually passed by the exec. Branch 2. Regulations ) -Legislature delegates the power to pass special legislation to exec. -Judicial interpretation emerges addressing the laws outside the code -Thus glosses exist on the legislative texts(glosses sometimes occurred in “special courts” -Before nations were treated as a whole, now it is understood that each area must be treated differently B. “Separation of Powers”(Basically talking about France) -Civil law is entirely different largely due to fear of the judiciary -Results in the legislature(parliament) being supreme as they are elected officials -The 2nd key component is “no government by judges” they actually prohibit judicial review of legislative actions C. Parliamentary Governments(France is a special case) -legislature is supreme and is the source of executive power -from the legislature comes the Prime Minister who is appointed by the head of state and must be selected from the maj