Mounted Tourist-Police officers in Petra, Jordan. A police officer (also known as a policeman or police agent in some forces, particularly in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations) is a warranted law employee of a police force.olice officers in nearly all countries retain their lawful powers while off duty. In the majority of Western legal systems, the major role of the police is to maintain order, keeping the peace through surveillance of the public, and the subsequent reporting and apprehension of suspected violators of the law.
The development of democracy in England. Juries and common law - Williams successor was King Henry, considered to be one of the most gifted statesmen of the 12th century. - King Henry developed Jury Trial as a means of administering royal justice. - This included the judge and jury of peers in the judicial process.
William Marbury, one of the appointees asked the supreme court to enforce the delivery of the commissions based on a provision of the judiciary act of 1789 which allowed the court to hear cases about original jurisdiction . The court refused Marbury's request, finding that the relevant part of the judiciary act conflicted the Constitution. Cheif Justice Marshall ruled and the decision established the evaluation of federal law constitutionality which is known as judicial review. (taken from ...