Crown and parliament - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

NCTJ Media LawWhere does precedent/case laws come from? - correct answer come from courts and evolves over time - judges use previous cases three main sources of law? - correct answer 1) common law 2) precedent (case law) - from courts 3) statute - from parliament define 'evidence in chief' ? - correct answer The main evidence a witness gives before being cross-examined what is a 'summary offence' ? - correct answer offences that can be heard only in magistrates' court: less ser...

UGA Ga and US History Exemption Test True or false? Georgia was the youngest and southernmost of the 13 colonies? - True Who is Hernan Cortes, and what is he notorious for? - Spanish explorer/conquistador who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs (aka Spanish Mexican war, which lasted from ) What Spanish explorer/conquistador discovered, and was the first to cross the Mississippi River? - Hernando de Soto What was the main goal of de Soto's expedition in 1538? - To find ...

American Yawp Exam Test Questions All Solved when did the seven years war end? - Answer -1763 when did the French crown fund exploration to the Americas - Answer -in the 1500s How much money did England have in debt after the seven years war? - Answer -129 pounds sterling what mythical waterway passing through the North American continent to Asia did early French explorers sought to find - Answer -the Northwest passage when was the Sugar Act imposed? - Answer -In 1764 what plac...

BYUI American Heritage Exam 1 Already Passed All but one of the following statements describes why the results of tyranny and anarchy are so similar in their effects on people. Choose the one that is not true. Both conditions bring out the worst in people, both in the oppressor and the oppressed. In both situations, life and the purpose of life are degraded. In both situations, values are sacrificed for survival. In both situations, life becomes more predictable, meaningful, and rational. I...

TTUISD Government cbe study guidePublic policy - correct answer is all of the goals a government sets and the various courses of action it pursues as it attempts to realize these goals. state - correct answer is a body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority. Sovereignty - correct answer is having supreme power within its own territory; neither subordinate nor responsible to any other a...

History GACE 035 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Which of the following best describes the Eastern Woodland peoples, such as the Iroquois and Algonquin, before European colonization? Agriculturalists who supplemented their diet with hunting and gathering Which of the following initiatives was a Progressive Era response to the threat of environmental degradation? The creation of the national park system "The children of the wandering beggars of England, that grow up idly, and hurt...

Albany Plan of Union plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the Crown Proclamation of 1763 law forbidding english colonists to settle west of the appalachian mountains Pontiac's Rebellion Violent campaign to drive British out of Ohio country led by Otowah chief Pontiac in 1763 Boston Tea Party a protest against taxation without representation by the Sons of Libert...

NCTJ- Essential Media Law- Key TermDefine the term common law - correct answer legal system based on custom and court decisions over time Define the term statute - correct answer Primary legislation passed by parliament with details set out in statutory instruments. European Convention on Human Rights (1950) - correct answer guarantees rights, including privacy and freedom of expression, and is the foundation of the European Court of Human Rights. Define the term precedent - correct ans...

True or false? Georgia was the youngest and southernmost of the 13 colonies? - True Who is Hernan Cortes, and what is he notorious for? - Spanish explorer/conquistador who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs (aka Spanish Mexican war, which lasted from 1519-1521) What Spanish explorer/conquistador discovered, and was the first to cross the Mississippi River? - Hernando de Soto What was the main goal of de Soto's expedition in 1538? - To find gold and conquer Florida for the Spa...

St. Augustine correct answers A Spanish outpost in Florida, it became the first European town in the present-day United States. Jamestown correct answers 1st permanent English settlement in North America Mayflower Impact correct answers -social contract where the forty-one men who signed it agreed to abide by the new governments laws in exchange for shared protection Roger Williams correct answers A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and stat...