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BLAW EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS (100%pass)
Functions of Law - Answer Maintaining the peace
Shaping moral standards
Promoting social justice
Maintaining the status quo
Facilitating orderly change
Facilitating planning
Providing a basis for compromise
Maximizing individual freedom
Keeping the peace - Answer some laws make certain activities crimes
Shaping moral standards - Answer some laws discourage drug and alcohol abuse
Promoting social justice - Answer some laws prohibit discrimination in employment
Maintaining the status quo - Answer some laws prevent the forceful overthrow of the
government
Promoting orderly change - Laws are passed following extensive study, debate, and
input from the public
Promotes planning - A good commercial law enables businesses to plan activities,
distribute their productive resources, and evaluate the risks taken.
,Providing a means for compromise - Laws permit the settling of cases out of court.
Roughly 95% of all law suits settle before going to trial
Greatest liberty of the individual- Denumiar Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion,
and Freedom of Association provided in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson - The court considered a Louisiana law which provided for equal but
separate accommodation in railway cars and sustained the law. Overruled by Brown v.
Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education - doctrine of separate but equal has no place in field of
public education
14th Amendment - equal protection for all people
When American colonies were first settled. - the English system of law was adopted.
English Common Law - foundation from which American judges developed a common
law in America
-developed by judges who issued their opinions when deciding cases
-the principles announced in these cases became PRECEDENT for later judges deciding
similar cases
Constitution - Answer the supreme law of the United States
Treaties - Answer a compact made between two or more nations
Statutes- Written law enacted by the legislative branch of the federal and state
governments that establishes certain courses of conduct that covered parties must
follow.
, Administrative law / regulations- Agencies such as the securities and Exchange
Commission and the Federal Trade Commission that the legislative and executive
branches of federal and state governments are empowered to establish.
Executive orders - Action to an order given by the head of the executive branch of the
government president or governor only in the state they hold authority in
Judicial decisions - Action from a judgment about an individual lawsuit decided by a
federal or state court
Hierarchy of Law - Response U.S. Constitution: treaties and federal statutes: federal
administrative law: federal common law: state constitution: state statutes: state
administrative law: state common law
Stare Decisis - Answer "to stand by the decision," meaning previous legal decisions are
to be followed
promotes uniformity of the law and makes court systems more efficient
All courts must follow. - Answer the precedent (rules of law established by court cases)
by the U.S. Supreme Court (Stare Decisis)
A state court of one state. - Answer is not required to follow the legal precedent
established by courts of another state
The state court. - Answer may consider the other state's rulings (as persuasive)
Courts will apply existing laws. - Answer to the new digital environment
What is being written to apply specifically to the new digital environment? - Answer new
laws
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