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