COMM Law UVA Test 1 Exam Questions & Answers.
law - CORRECT ANSWER creation and enforcement of duties... reflecting accepted views of society
duty - CORRECT ANSWER act required bu social custom
social custom - CORRECT ANSWER responsibility everyone should have in order to have organized so...
COMM Law UVA Test 1 Exam Questions
& Answers.
law - CORRECT ANSWER creation and enforcement of duties... reflecting accepted views of society
duty - CORRECT ANSWER act required bu social custom
social custom - CORRECT ANSWER responsibility everyone should have in order to have organized
society (duty to not text and drive)
laws impose... - CORRECT ANSWER duties
law obligations - CORRECT ANSWER laws make certain agreements legally binding (contracts)
constitutional rights - CORRECT ANSWER rights written in constitution
statute - CORRECT ANSWER written law passed by legislative
statutory rights - CORRECT ANSWER rights provided by the law
morally neutral laws - CORRECT ANSWER govt made laws to protect health, safety, welfare of individuals
(drinking age)
law is the... - CORRECT ANSWER moral minimum
market theory - CORRECT ANSWER profit maximization of shareholders
triple bottom line - CORRECT ANSWER profit maximization and social/environmental impact
,substantive law - CORRECT ANSWER defines specific rights, duties, obligations
procedural law - CORRECT ANSWER established mechanisms to enforce rights and duties created by
substantive law (gives govt/courts ability to enforce)
criminal law - CORRECT ANSWER rules that protect society by establishing minimum standards of
acceptable behavior/establish punishment
criminal law enforced by... - CORRECT ANSWER government and only government
civil law - CORRECT ANSWER laws concerned with private relations between members in community
(contract rights)
civil law shstem - CORRECT ANSWER based on set of statutes or code (written down by legislators)
civil law system: if no statute applies... - CORRECT ANSWER no remedy (rigid)
code - CORRECT ANSWER set of statues
common law system - CORRECT ANSWER allows for judge made law (case law)
common law system: if no statute applies... - CORRECT ANSWER allows judge to use another statute to
apply remedy (judge makes law)
US law system - CORRECT ANSWER common law
only US state that has civil law - CORRECT ANSWER Louisiana
court of law v court is equity - CORRECT ANSWER rigid v flexible
jury v no jury
, money remedy v equitable remedy
property attachment enforcement v contempt enforcement
the US constitution ambuiguity... - CORRECT ANSWER allows for change with times
emoluments clause - CORRECT ANSWER president cannot receive anything that may force them to
provide a favor (purpose: stop foreign countries from influencing U.S. government
judicial review - CORRECT ANSWER judicial's authority to review executive/legislative act and invalidate
any law contradictory to the US Constitution (REVIEW, not rewrite laws)
supremacy clause problem - CORRECT ANSWER only gives power of judicial review to states, not federal
what established federal judicial review? - CORRECT ANSWER Marbury v Madison
USSC ruled that Judiciary Act of 1783 (federal law) was unconstitutional
Writ of Mandamus (Marbury v Madison) - CORRECT ANSWER Court order directing a government official
to perform a certain act (Madison to hand over the commission)
judicial restraint - CORRECT ANSWER judges play minimal policymaking roles, leaving that duty strictly to
the legislatures
strict constructionism - CORRECT ANSWER narrow interpretation of Constitution, according to exact
terms
judicial activism - CORRECT ANSWER living constitution; spirit of the times and the needs of the nation
can influence judicial decisions
commerce clause - CORRECT ANSWER INTERstate; Congress may regulate commerce among states to
allow for free trade
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