Where must U.S. spending bill originate according to the Constitution?
What is House of Representatives
100
A practice of deciding what is right or wrong in a reasoned, impartial manner.
What is ethics
100
Which State did not send deputies to the Constitutional Convention?
What is Rhode Island and Providence Plantation.
100
Which of the first 10 amendments guarantees freedom of the press?
What is first
100
A dispute between neighbors involving property damage of $8,500 would probably be heard in
What is Associate circuit court
200
How are the numbers of U.S. senators determined for each state?
What is Each state has two U.S. senators.
200
What type of ethical reasoning is involved with majority rule?
What is Rule‐based reasoning
200
How many lawyers were members of the Constitutional Convention?
What is 34 out of 55
200
Which of the first 10 amendments guarantees freedom of speech?
What is first
200
Preponderance of evidence." Claimant must produce evidence beyond the balance of probabilities.
What is civil law
300
Which branch of government is headed by the President?
What is Executive
300
elements include violating the law openly, peacefully, and accepting punishment for the violation.
What are two elements of civil disobedience?
300
Who was called the "Father of the Constitution"
What is James Madison
300
The first The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the
What is bill of rights
300
Attorneys generally are not required or not even allowed in a small claims court.
What is true
400
How does the Constitution create a system of checks and balances?
What is with three different branches
400
The U.S. system of democracy is based on rules embedded in and sanctioned by the form of government
created by our Constitution.
What is ethics of the government
400
Was Thomas Jefferson a member of the Constitutional Convention?
What is no
400
Which of the following issues does the Fourteenth Amendment address.
What is privacy
400
deals with the disputes between individuals, organizations, or between the two, in which compensation is awarded to the victim.
What is civil law
500
What are the three branches of goverment
What is executive, legislative, and judicial
500
based on the “greatest happiness principle,” in which actions are right based upon how much happiness they create, and actions are wrong based upon the amount of unhappiness they produce.
What is Utilitarianism
500
Who presided over the Constitutional Convention?
What is George Washington
500
The Amendment preserves the right to trial by jury in criminal trials.
What is sixth
500
the body of law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses.