PSU COMM 403 - Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PSU COMM 403
PSU COMM 403 - Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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What are the 5 sources of law? - CORRECT ANSWER- 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? - CORRECT ...
PSU COMM 403 - Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What are the 5 sources of law? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 5
Common Law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - 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? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Common Law
Laws could be declared unconstitutional under the: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - void for
vagueness doctrine
- over breadth doctrine
, Void for Vagueness Doctrine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Common Law
Stare decisis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "let the decision stand"
- judge should resolve current problems in the same manner as similar problems were
resolved in the past
Precedent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Accept
2. Modify
3. Distinguish
4. Overrule
Trial Courts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- TRIAL
COURTS where a jury reaches a verdict
Trial courts on the federal level are referred to as ______ courts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
District Courts
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