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What is the Law?
Lawmaking
Advocacy and Settling Disputes
The Court System
Juries and Lawyers
100
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
county, city, or local laws
What are ordinances?
100
voting is considered an example of this
What is advocacy?
100
The type of trial system in the United States.
What is an adversarial system?
100
a down payment for a lawyer's services
What is a retainer?
200
Things that are important to a person, may be tangible or intangible.
What are values?
200
"the Constitution and the Laws of the United States.....shall be the supreme law of the land"
What is the Supremacy Clause?
200
a way to influence the lawmaking process by convincing lawmakers to vote as you want them to
What is lobbying?
200
In a civil trial, the party who is bringing the action
What is plaintiff?
300
Regulates relations between individuals or groups of individuals.
What are civil laws?
300
A judge who interprets what the legislature means is determining this.
What is legislative intent?
300
when the legislature refers a legislative act to the voters for final approval or rejection
What is a referendum?
300
a group of people who listen to witnesses and examines the evidence in order to determine a defendant's guilt or innocence
What is a petit jury?
400
The burden of proof in a civil case.
What is by the preponderance of the evidence?
400
laws passed by Congress and state legislatures
What are statutes?
400
voters are allowed to remove elected officials from office using this means
What is recall?
400
A pretrial agreement between the prosecutor and the defendant and his lawyer which disposes of the case before it goes to trial
What is a plea bargain?
400
a group of people who examine the evidence in order to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to take someone to trial
What is a grand jury?
500
Enables a court to declare unenforceable any law passed by Congress or a state legislature that conflicts with the U.S. Constitution.
What is judicial review?
500
a written decision by an appeals court that guides future cases
What is a precedent?
500
a third party helps the disputing parties reach a settlement
What is mediation?
500
handle cases involving wills and claims against the estates of people who die with or without a will
What is probate?