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The First Year
Verbs
100

Policy directives that implement or interpret a statute, a constitutional provision, or a treaty.

What is an Executive order?

100

An area of authority over which a governing body has control or the geographical reach of a legislature or court.

What is Jurisdiction?

100
The legislature of the US, consisting of the House and Senate
What is Congress?
100

Writing a memo in which all of the cases are provided.

What is a Closed memo?

100

To declare the conclusion of law reached by the court.

What is to hold?

200

To compel observance of a law.

What is to enforce?

200

A subset of case law that only includes judicial decisions made by courts in the absence of enacted statute.

What is common law?

200
The lower chamber of the US legislature, comprised of 435 members
What is the House of Representatives?
200

A study aid that summarizes the facts, procedure, issue, rationale, holding, and rule of a case.

What is the Case brief?

200
To propose a candidate for office
What is to nominate?
300

A department, division, or administration within the federal government

What is the Executive (President) Branch?

300

Authority created and published by one of the three branches of government.

What is Primary Authority?

300

A formal written enactment of a legislature that commands or prohibits something.

What is a statute or law?

300

Writing a memo where the student must do all of the research.

What is the open memo?

300
To refuse to sign a bill that has been passed by a legislature
What is to veto?
400
The power to select or designate a person to fill an office or public function
What is to appoint?
400

Primary authority that controls the legal issue because it comes from the jurisdiction governing the legal dispute.

What is Binding or Mandatory authority?

400
The upper chamber of the US legislature, comprised of 100 members – 2 from each state
What is the Senate?
400

A document that sets out the legal arguments on appeal the initial decision.

What is the Appellate brief?

400
To change or modify existing law, often by an act by the legislature
What is to amend?
500
The approval sought by the president when choosing appointments to various federal positions
What is confirmation, or to confirm?
500

A principle in American jurisprudence that requires a court to follow its prior decisions when the prior decision addresses the same issue.  It means "to stand by things decided and not disturb settle points."

What is Stare Decisis. 

500
To overrule or nullify, Congress may do this to a presidential veto
What is to override?
500

The discussion with the court offered in support of an appellate brief; students are often required to deliver a mock argument in a legal writing course.

What is the Oral argument?

500

To point out an essential difference; to prove a case cited as applicable or inapplicable.

What is to distinguish?