Court Time
Term when a court finds a defendant guilty of a crime.
What is a conviction?
Who are Senators?
What is the 1st amendment?
This branch of the US Govt. makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
A written document about the purpose, power and limits of a Government.
What is a Constitution?
A group of citizens gathered to hear a trial and decide guilt.
What is a jury?
Approximately 700,000 citizens create this area represented by the House of Representatives.
What is a congressional district?
An addition to a written constitution.
What is an amendment?
The branch of the US Govt is responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
A voluntary agreement amongst people about how they are to act and treat one another.
What is a Social Contract?
They are the highest position held in the Arkansas judicial system.
Who is the Supreme Court Justice of Arkansas?
This is the fraction of the States needed to agree in order to ratify an amendment.
What is three-fourths?
The right from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment?
The branch of the US Govt tasked with interpreting laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Name for the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A decision or ruling issued by a judge after and appeal.
What is a holding?
The term for a two-thirds consent of Congress.
What is a "super-majority?"
A police tool used for observing people potentially involved in criminal activity.
The condition of society commonly referred to when rules, law and justice are removed.
What is State of Nature?
You are born with these, they are not granted by any government.
What are Natural Rights?
A standard for later courts to use when deciding new cases.
What is a precedent?
This is the historic law referencing the fines imposed upon a person for bashing in the skull of another.
What is Salic Law?
Legal concept of an individuals belief that personal activity, communications, information and belongings are not subject to intrusion.
What is "expectation of privacy?"
To turn unwritten rules into formal law.
What is Codify?
The condition formed from an absence of any government.
What is Anarchy?