Amendments
The first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
form of government where a county is ruled by a small group of wealthy people.
What is Oligarchy?
No one is above the law.
US v Nixon
Concerns Minors
What is Juvenile Law?
Groups of people who share political beliefs and work to elect their candidates to public office
What are Political Parties
Power not granted to the federal government belongs to the states and the people
What is the 10th Amendment
What is Monarchy?
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Concerns armed forces
What is Military Law?
Basic laws in nature that apply to all societies, such as that each person has inalienable right to life, liberty and property
What is natural law?
Right to a trial by jury
form of government in which the government controls the whole economy.
What is communism?
Established it's power to judicial review
What is Marbury v Madison?
Laws that make an action a crime. This law is meant to protect citizens.
What is criminal law?
Earliest known written law
Code of Hammurabi - ruler of Babylonia
We have the right to a quick trial that will be decided by an unbiased jury or our peers
What is the 6th Amendment?
when one person has complete control over the country citizens.
What is Autocracy?
The government must provide a lawyer to anyone accused of a felony who is too poor to afford one
What is Gideon v Wainwright
The constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. Judges/courts will use the Constitution to determine what the law is.
What is Constitutional Law?
First three words in the US Constitution
We The People
Rights that we have that are NOT clearly written in the Constitution
What is the 9th Amendment?
when citizens control the government by directly deciding/voting on laws and procedures
What is Direct Democracy?
Must provide minors with "due process"
what is In Re Gault
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Document that limited the power of the King of England and made sure the King had to follow all the laws of the kingdom.