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These official guidelines are enacted by a government to maintain order, resolve everyday conflicts, and protect citizens' safety and rights.
What are laws?
A statute
What are formal, written laws?
Individual legal decisions made by a court, specifically when a statute does not apply, and the judge has to interpret how the statute might govern the facts of a case.
In the USA, if you have a argument or disagreement, you can sue. What is the purpose of lawsuits?
What is resolving disputes?
Before a law is officially passed and signed, it is called by this four-letter name.
What is a bill?
In this landmark 1954 decision, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional, famously declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Red lights, speed limits, and stop signs are examples of traffic laws created to prevent accidents and fulfill this primary function of government rules.
What is establishing standards?
The people who enact statutes and give examples
What is a legislative body such as Congress and state legislatures?
After being acquitted in his high-profile 1995 criminal trial for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, this former NFL star was found liable in a civil trial two years later.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
According to the 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.
What is the purpose of this law?
What is protecting rights and liberties?
This limit prevents the police from charging you with most old crimes after a certain number of years have passed.
What is the statute of limitations?
This 1973 landmark Supreme Court case, which established a constitutional right to abortion, was famously overturned by the Court in 2022.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
In Longyearbyen, Svalbard, it is illegal to die there, and it has been since 1950. Longyearbyen experiences extremely low temperatures, meaning that anything on or under the ground is in a state of permafrost where nothing thaws. If a dead body were buried, it would remain perfectly preserved with all the diseases and viruses the body contains, making it a safety hazard.
The reason this is a law is that it connects to the standards and values of society.
What is maintaining order?
When a state statute and a federal statute conflict, this constitutional clause ensures the federal law wins.
What is a supremacy clause?
In this landmark 1966 Supreme Court decision, the justices ruled that law enforcement must inform suspects of their right to remain silent and their right to an attorney prior to interrogation.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?