Law: Purpose and Types
Most divorces involve this type of law
What is family law?
I could babble on about this legal text, often considered one of the earliest written laws
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / UDHR?
Decisions regarding education are made by this level of government
What is the provincial government?
According to the textbook, this type of law covers "offences against society and prescribes punishment"
What is criminal law?
This type of law controls the relationship between a government and its people
What is public law?
Name the three largest influences on Modern Canadian Law
What is English law, French law, and Indigenous law?
Ideals from these revolutions had a profound influence on the development of rights in Canada
What are the American and French revolutions?
This level of govenment as authority over criminal law, banking and currency, and postal services
In private law, the individual initiating a lawsuit is known as this
What is the plantiff?
If you sued a government board or agency, your case would fall under this type of law
What is administrative law?
The common law system emerged under this form of government that was prevalent in Europe between the ninth and fifteenth century
What is the feudal system?
The Canadian Bill of Rights passed under this Prime Minister, spell out his last name
What is D-I-E-F-E-N-B-A-K-E-R?
The Canadian constitution is made up of multiple constitutional documents, name two of them
What is the Constitution Act, 1867, and the Constitution Act, 1982 / the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This position the provincial equivalent of the governor general
What is a lieutenant-governor?
According to the All About Law Textbook, the law has five general functions: name three of them
What is establishing rules of conduct / providing a system of enforcement / protecting rights and freedoms / protecting society / resolving disputes
This King's reforms lead to the creation of the first Parliament and, eventually, the development of statute law
Who is King Henry III?
Critics believed that the Canadian Bill of Rights didn't go far enough, as it only applied to _____ matters and could be changed or abolished by _____
What is federal and Parliament?
Originally, the _____ was a British document, but it became a Canadian document and was renamed to _____ through a process known as _____
What is the "British North America Act," the "Constitution Act, 1867," and "patriation"
A type of Canadian correctional institution designed to meet the needs of Indigenous inmates
What is a healing lodge?
_____ law, part of the broader category of _____ law, holds individuals responsible for the damages caused to other individuals
What is tort and private law?
What is the Constitution of the Iroquois Nations/the Great Binding Law?
Prior to the Canadian Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, rights only existed in common law; this was also known as
What is the implied Bill of Rights?
What is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council?
According to _____ the constitution cannot changed without of the ______ and _____ of the provinces with at least _____% of the population
What is the "amending formula," the "federal government," "two-thirds," and "50%"?