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What is Law?
Lawmaking
Advocacy
Settling Disputes
This and That
100
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
County, city, or local laws
What are ordinances?
100
Actively supporting an issue
What is advocacy?
100
Two disputing parties compromise to reach an agreement
What is negotiation?
100
The person who is bringing the case in a civil case
What is the plaintiff?
200
Less serious crimes
What are misdemeanors?
200
proposed laws
What are bills?
200
influencing legislators to take action on a bill
What is lobbying?
200
An agreement reached by two disputing parties
What is a settlement?
200
In an adversarial system the judge acts as this
What is a referee?
300
The person being charged with a crime or wrongdoing in criminal or civil law.
What is the defendant?
300
A legislative enactment
What is a statute?
300
The legislators asking voters to directly vote on a proposed law
What is a referendum?
300
When a third party helps two disputing parties reach a settlement
What is mediation?
300
A group of people who listen to witnesses, examine evidence, and decide the guilt or innocence of a defendant
What is petit jury?
400
The standard of proof in a civil trial.
What is by the preponderance of the evidence?
400
A court decision on a legal question which gives direction to future cases that are similar
What is a precedent?
400
the people purpose a law to be voted on
What is an initiative?
400
The third party in an arbitration who makes the decision on the settlement.
What is an ombudsperson?
400
18
What is the age to vote or be on a jury?
500
The place of a trial
What is the venue?
500
When laws seem unclear, judges examine a law looking for
What is legislative intent?
500
The removal of an elected official from office by a vote of the people
What is recall?
500
Two disputing parties going to court
What is litigation?
500
The Highest Court in the U.S.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?