Cases
International Law
Legal History
The Constitution
Grab Bag
100
It established the concept of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
The right to self-rule
What is sovereignty?
100
Codified Greek law.
What is Draco's Law?
100
Article 1
What is the legislative branch?
100
This group of criminal law theorists believes that justice should guide all criminal proceedings.
Who are the retributivists?
200
This case stated that individuals have certain rights that must be recited to them by an arresting officer.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
200
States submit disputes to this court for arbitration.
What is the International Court of Justice?
200
Not just a code of law but also a moral code or "pathway to be followed.
What is Islamic Law?
200
The Commerce Clause
What is Article 1, Section 8. Clause 3?
200
A superior person who acts the way everyone should act at all times.
Who is the reasonable person?
300
This case made the exclusionary rule adaptable to the states
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
300
These include kidnapping across international borders and human trafficking.
What are crimes against humanity?
300
The John Hinckley Trial brought changes to this criminal defense.
What is the insanity defense?
300
This clause allows Virginia to bring its criminals back to Virginia stand trial if they are apprehended in another state.
What is the extradition clause?
300
In accomplice law, this is the person who commits the crime.
What is the principal?
400
You have the right to an attorney in all criminal prosecutions.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
400
These can be economic, humanitarian, or military.
What are sanctions?
400
Code of law that compiled and refined Roman Law.
What is Justinian's Code?
400
This clause requires that states to honor the contracts and legal decisions of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
400
A witness statement in which attorneys from both sides ask a witness questions and answers are recorded to be used later in trial.
What is a deposition?
500
In this case the Court ruled that firewalls on Internet connections in public facilities are not a form of censorship.
What is American Library Association v. U.S.?
500
Acknowledgement by one nation that the government of another nation is sovereign.
What is diplomatic recognition?
500
This series of international agreements establishes the "rules of war."
What are the Geneva Conventions?
500
This interpretive philosophy holds true to the original intent of the Framer's words.
What is strict interpretation?
500
This constitutional principle divides power among three levels of government--federal, state, and local.
What is federalism?
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