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100
The "magic" number of electors needed to become President.
What is 270?
100
The ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials, candidates, government, and political issues.
What is Public Opinion?
100
Laws that seek to prevent people from deliberately or recklessly harming each other or each other's property.
What are Criminal Laws?
100
The party bringing the lawsuit.
What is a plaintiff?
100
An act that breaks a federal or state criminal law and causes harm to people or society in general
What is a crime?
200
The list of candidates on which you cast your vote.
What is a ballot?
200
Television, Radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, recordings, and books.
What is Mass Media?
200
A legal action in which a person or group sues to collect damages for some harm.
What is a lawsuit?
200
A formal statement naming the plaintiff and defendant and describing the nature of the lawsuit.
What is a complaint?
200
A vote of not guilty.
What is an acquittal?
300
A sample of voters leaving selected polling places.
What is an exit poll?
300
People who share a point of view about an issue sometimes unite to promote their beliefs.
What is an interest group?
300
Offenses such as vandalism, stealing inexpensive items, writing bad checks for low amounts.
What are misdemeanors?
300
A court order commanding a person or group to stop a certain action.
What is an injunction?
300
When a jury cannot agree on a verdict.
What is a hung jury?
400
All the people who are eligible to vote.
What is the electorate?
400
Published false information that will harm someone's reputation.
What is libel?
400
Requires an official who has arrested someone to bring that person to court and explain why he/she is being held.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
400
A document telling an individual of the suit against them and ordering him to appear in court on a given date and time.
What is a summons?
400
Violent or potentially violent crimes such as murder, manslaughter, assault, rape, and kidnapping.
What are felonies?
500
A special election to remove a public official from office.
What is a recall?
500
PACs
What are Political Action Committees?
500
A person who is tried and found not guilty cannot be retried for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
500
"By a preponderance of the evidence"
What is the burden of proof?
500
The primary goal of the juvenile court system.
What is to rehabilitate?