What role does law have in society? correct answers Law touches everything we do, from business to personal lives.
What roots does our law come from? correct answers English roots
Precendent correct answers tendency to decide cases based on previous rulings
common-law correct answers judge...
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What role does law have in society? correct answers Law touches everything we do, from
business to personal lives.
What roots does our law come from? correct answers English roots
Precendent correct answers tendency to decide cases based on previous rulings
common-law correct answers judge-made law
What does the constitution establish? correct answers branches of government, fundamental
rights, and checks and balances
What are the three branches of the US government? correct answers Legislative, executive, and
judicial
What does the legislative branch do? correct answers create new laws through congress
What does executive branch do? correct answers enforce laws
What does the judicial branch do? correct answers interpret laws and determine validity
What are checks and balances? correct answers power that one branch has over the two others
What are fundamental rights? correct answers constitution grants the most basic liberities
What is a statute? correct answers law created by legislature
stare decisis correct answers let the decision stand
court order correct answers judges have authority to issue binding obligations on people
What are regulations? correct answers agencies power to create laws
What is criminal law? correct answers prohibits certain behavior for the benefit of society
What is civil law? correct answers regulates rights and duties between parties
What is legal positivism? correct answers law is what the sovereign says it is
jurisprudence correct answers philosophy of law
sovereign correct answers recognized political power that citizens obey
What is natural law? correct answers good is to be done and evil is to be avoided
, legal realism correct answers it does not matter what is written within the law
Plantiff correct answers party who is suing
defendent correct answers party being sued
common law correct answers judge-made law
bystander case correct answers You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created
the danger
statutory law correct answers law created by legislative bodies
bill correct answers proposed statute submitted to congress
veto correct answers power of president to reject a law
What are the three rules to interpret a statute? correct answers plain meaning rule, public policy,
and legislative history rule
What have administrative agencies become? correct answers the "fourth branch of the
government"
What are the two types of agencies? correct answers executive and independent
Does the president have power over executive or independent agencies? correct answers
executive
subpoena correct answers order to appear at a particular place and time
adjudicate correct answers to hold formal hearing about issue
administrative law judge correct answers agency employee who acts as an impartial decision
maker
What are the limits on agency power? correct answers statutory control, political control,judicial
review, FOIA
separation of powers correct answers three branches of government
individual rights correct answers original constitution was silent about so many rights of many
citizens, those have been amended later
interstate commerce correct answers congress regulates anything that has to do with commerce
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