LENB Test 1 El-Jourbagy (Questions and answers) LATEST UPDATE
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LENB El-Jourbagy
What are some examples of a federal executive order? - ️️FDR internment camps
for Japanese people in the US during WWII. Trumps travel ban( ruled unconstitutional)
What are some examples of a state executive orders? - ️️Gov. Kemp establishing a
Code of Ethics for Executive Branch Officer...
LENB Test 1 El-Jourbagy
What are some examples of a federal executive order? - ✔️✔️FDR internment camps
for Japanese people in the US during WWII. Trumps travel ban( ruled unconstitutional)
What are some examples of a state executive orders? - ✔️✔️Gov. Kemp establishing a
Code of Ethics for Executive Branch Officers and Employees
What is Civil Law? - ✔️✔️The body of laws that govern the rights and responsibilities
either between persons or between persons and their government (general dispute)
What is Criminal Law? - ✔️✔️The body of laws that involve the rights and
responsibilities an individual has with respect to the public as a whole. (A violation of the
publics trust)
What is the supreme law of the land? - ✔️✔️U.S. Constitution
What are sources of law? - ✔️✔️Constitutions, Statues, Cases, Treaties,
Administrative, Executive Orders
What is written in US Code? - ✔️✔️Federal Statutes
What is The National Conference of Commissioners (NCC) - ✔️✔️A group of legal
scholars and lawyers that create uniform laws.
What law is significant to businesses? - ✔️✔️Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
Precedent - ✔️✔️A tool used by judges to make rulings on cases on the basis of key
similarities to previous cases. (Uses past decisions to make rulings on current case)
Give an example of precedent. - ✔️✔️Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy
v. Ferguson
What type of laws "fill in the gaps"? - ✔️✔️Administrative Laws
What are some examples of Admin law? - ✔️✔️Net Neutrality, Clean Water Act
What is a binding agreement between two nations or states? - ✔️✔️Treaties
What are some examples of treaties? - ✔️✔️NAFTA(no longer in effect)
Who negotiates treaties? - ✔️✔️Executive Branch
, Who approves treaties? - ✔️✔️The Senate (2/3 majority)
How is an executive order defined? - ✔️✔️Directives issued by the executive branch to
fulfill constitutional duties.
Natural Law - ✔️✔️A doctrine that society should be governed by certain ethical
principles that are part of nature and, as such, can be understood by reason.
Civil Disobedience - ✔️✔️A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.
Where do most civil or criminal start when they enter the legal system? - ✔️✔️Trial
Courts (Court of Original Jurisdiction)
Trial Courts are also known as what in state court systems? - ✔️✔️Courts of Common
Pleas, County Courts
Trial Courts are also known as what in the federal court system? - ✔️✔️District Courts
What is a Jury Trial? - ✔️✔️A trial before 6 to 12 peers
What is a Bench Trial? - ✔️✔️A trial before a judge with no jury
What are questions of law? - ✔️✔️An issue concerning the interpretation or application
of a law.
What are questions of fact? - ✔️✔️A question about an event or characteristic in a
case.
What type of trial determines questions of fact? - ✔️✔️Jury Trial
What type fo trial determines questions of law? - ✔️✔️Bench Trial
What are Appellate courts? - ✔️✔️A higher court , usually consisting of more than one
judge, that reviews the decision and results of a lower court when a losing party files for
an appeal.
Do Appellate Courts answer questions of law and questions of fact? - ✔️✔️No,
Appellate Courts ONLY answer questions of law.
What is a Court Order that notifies the defendant of the lawsuit? - ✔️✔️Complaint and
Summons
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