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BLAW 2301 Polze Exam 1

Precedent - correct answer ✔✔requires judges to decide current cases based on previous rulings



Common Law - correct answer ✔✔accumulation of precedent, based on case after case



US Constitution - correct answer ✔✔• supreme law of the land

• establishes national gov.

• creates system of checks and balances between branches of gov.

• guarantees many basic rights to citizens



Statutes - correct answer ✔✔law created by a legislature



Common Law - correct answer ✔✔• principle that precedent is binding on later cases is stare decisis "let
the decision stand"

• precedent is only binding on lower courts



Administrative Law - correct answer ✔✔• agencies do day-to-day work of legislative and executive
branches

• power to create laws called regulations



Treaties - correct answer ✔✔president can enter treaties, must be ratified by a two third's vote of senate



Criminal Law - correct answer ✔✔• concerns behavior so threatening that society outlaws altogether

• gov. prosecute wrongdoer

• can be fines, prison time or both



Civil Law - correct answer ✔✔regulates rights and duties between parties

, Shareholders - correct answer ✔✔owners of the company



Stakeholders - correct answer ✔✔includes employees, customers, and communities and countries in
which a company operates



Utilitarian Ethics - correct answer ✔✔correct decision making makes happiness, produces greatest net
benefit



Deontological Ethics - correct answer ✔✔duty to do right thing no matter what



Rawlsian Justice - correct answer ✔✔society is better off if people have an incentive to work hard



Common Law - correct answer ✔✔Judge made law



Stare Decisis - correct answer ✔✔once a covet has decided a particular issue, it will generally apply same
rule in similar cases in future



Bystander Cases - correct answer ✔✔you have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the
danger



Bills - correct answer ✔✔2 houses - either can originate a proposed statute; bill



Committee Work - correct answer ✔✔where most heavy lifting is done



Statutory Interpretation - correct answer ✔✔court explains precisely what the language means and how
it applies to a given case

• 3 primary steps

-plain meaning rule

-legislative history and intent

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