What Is Law?
All people have these rights, simply for being human
What is human rights?
The names of the two houses in the U.S. Congrees are:
The Senate and the House of Representatives
The way to influence the lawmaking process by convincing lawmakers to vote as you want them to
What is lobbying
The party responding to the plaintiff or the Prosecution (both Criminal and Civil)
What is defendant?
A lawyer who goes to court or trial
What is litigator
The label for a person who has filed a lawsuit
What is a plaintiff?
This is an agreement or contract between two countries
What is a treaty?
Name one famous U.S. advocator
Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Al Gore, Michelle Obama, etc.
The court where one party presents arguments asking the court to review the decision of the trial court (hint: there are no juries)
What is appeals court?
The organization that licenses lawyers
What is Bar Association?
The system that provides each branch of the government with the powers to restrain the other branches of government, so that no one branch can become too powerful and abuse its powers.
What is checks and balances?
This clause in the U.S. Constitution states that the laws in the Constitution and the laws of the U.S. will preside over state and local laws
What is the supremacy clause?
This amendment in the Bill of Rights protects the rights of American citizens to lobby the government
What is the first amendment
The highest court in the United States
What is the Supreme Court of the United States?
The most severe punishment that may be imposed on a lawyer who violates the code of legal ethics
What is disbarred?
One of the reasons for which a court can declare a law unconstitutional is that:
1) The government has passed a law that the Constitution does not give the power to pass
or
2) The government has passed a law that violates somebody's rights
These actors in the government, such as the TSA, develop rules and regulations to make laws more specific
What are agencies?
This piece of Federal legislation protected voters against voter discrimination, in response to practices in the southern states aimed at preventing African Americans from voting
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
A decision that establishes a principle or a rule that has to be followed by all lower courts
What is precedent?
This allows encourages clients to speak freely to their lawyers and means that whatever the client tells the lawyer remains private and confidential
What is Attorney-Client Privilege?
In the case of Dudley and Stephens and the shipwrecked sailors, why did the arguments of necessity not work for the defendants in their trial?
Even if the act is necessary to save one's life, necessity will not justify murder under any circumstances.
When an appeals court issues an opinion, it sets _______ for similar cases in the future, where lower courts under its jurisdiction must follow it
What is precedent?
This Supreme Court case decided that political contributions made by corporations were protected under the first amendment
What is Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission
The type of court system that is used in the United States
What is adversarial system?
A person at some newspapers, government agencies, and universities that has the power to investigate a complaint and then help the parties reach an agreement
What is ombudsperson?