Law Basics/Constitution
This is another name for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is a bill?
A basic right of citizens over the age of 18.
What is voting?
A conflict in the public eye.
What is a controversy?
The highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
The idea that no one is above the law.
What is the rule of law?
This establishes the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
This is an agreement that negotiations end with to avoid going to trial.
What is a settlement?
Another term for a lawyer.
What is a litigator?
This means that powers are divided between a federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
What are legislative powers of states?
Someone who participates in the march for life and protests abortion clinics is an example of this.
What is advocacy?
False
What is appeals court?
A type of law used to regulate how people conduct themselves in public.
What is criminal law?
The power over national defense, the environment, and the economy.
What are legislative powers of the federal government?
What is a problem with campaign finance reform?
This gets people to talk out their problems with a facilitator.
What is mediation?
Their job is to facilitate and interpret what the law means for the given case.
What is the role of the judge?
This is the study of law and legal philosophy.
What is jurisprudence?
What are the steps in the lawmaking process?
lawmaker gets idea->introduces bill->goes to committee->debated on floor->voted on->goes through same process in other house of congress->goes to president
What is referendum?
This is someone who decides the outcome of this type of negotiation.
What is an arbitrator?
Preliminary examination of a juror to determine objectivity.
What is voir dire?