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PSU COMM 403 - Exam 1 Questions And
Answers Latest Update
What are the 5 sources of law? ANS✔✔ 1. Common Law
2. Equity Law
3. Statutory Law
4. Constitutional law
5. Executive orders/administrative law
How many freedoms are protected by the First Amendment? ANS✔✔ 5
GRASP ANS✔✔ 1. Grievances
2. Religion
3. Assembly
4. Speech
5. Press
Common Law ANS✔✔ - Developed in England
- Inductive system of law - a legal rule is developed after deciding a number of similar cases
Which type of law is the legal framework at which the rest of our laws develop? ANS✔✔ Common Law
Laws could be declared unconstitutional under the: ANS✔✔ - void for vagueness doctrine
- over breadth doctrine
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Void for Vagueness Doctrine ANS✔✔ if a person of reasonable and ordinary intelligence would not be able to tell, from
looking at its terms, what speech is allowed and what speech is prohibited
Overbreadth Doctrine ANS✔✔ if the law does not aim only at problems within the allowable area of legitimate
government control but also sweeps up other activities that constitute an exercise of protected expression
Which law is also known as "judge-made" law ANS✔✔ Common Law
Stare decisis ANS✔✔ "let the decision stand"
- judge should resolve current problems in the same manner as similar problems were resolved in the past
Precedent ANS✔✔ to protect the integrity of common law, judges developed means of coping with bad law and new
situations in which the application of old law would result in injustice
Four Options for Handling Precedent ANS✔✔ 1. Accept
2. Modify
3. Distinguish
4. Overrule
Trial Courts ANS✔✔ - determine the facts of the case
- courts of original jurisdiction
- must hear all cases they are assigned
Do lawsuits begin in trial courts or appellate courts? ANS✔✔ TRIAL COURTS where a jury reaches a verdict
Trial courts on the federal level are referred to as ______ courts ANS✔✔ District Courts
The number of district courts is determined by _________ ANS✔✔ population
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