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GPSTC Test 1 Exam/90 Questions and Answers
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GPSTC Test 1 Exam/90 Questions andAnswers
Abet - -(v.) to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong
or unworthy)
-Affirmative defense - -I did it but... or self defense.
A response to a plaintiff's claim that does not deny the plaintiff's facts but
attacks the plaintiff's legal right to bring an action. An example is the running
of the statute of limitations.
-Felony - -Crime punishable by death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for
more than 12 months
-Another - -A person or persons other than the accused
-Aggravation - -n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a
crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
-Alibi - -a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act,
typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
-Amenable - -(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable,
submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
-Burden of proof - -the obligation to present evidence to support one's claim
-Coercion - -the practice of persuading someone to do something by using
force or threats
-Conspiracy - -a secret agreement between two or more people to perform
an unlawful act
-Conviction - -A fixed or strong belief or opinion
-Crime - -An act against the law
-Criminal attempt - -Act or omission constituting a substantial step in a
course of conduct planned to culminate in the commission of a crime.
-Culpability - -a state of guilt
, -Deadly weapon - -Any instrument, which by its contemplated design or by
the manner it is used, is readily capable of causing substantial bodily harm
or death.
-Delusional compulsion - -
-Common Law - -(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial
decisions
-Constitution - -A document which spells out the principles by which a
government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society. 7 Articles
-Statutes - -written laws enacted by legislatures
-Case Law - -the rules of law announced in court decisions
-Article 1 - -Legislative Branch
-Article 2 - -Executive Branch
-Article 3 - -Judicial Branch
-Article 4 - -Relations among states, extradition crimes between states
-Article 5 - -Amending the Constitution
-Article 6 - -Article of the Constitution that sets the status of the
Constitution as the supreme law of the land, to which leaders must be loyal.
-Article 7 - -Ratification of the Constitution
-First amendment - -Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of
grievances.
-Second amendment - -A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed.
-Third amendment - -The government may not house soldiers in private
homes without consent of the owner
-Fourth amendment - -The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
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