Civics Flashcards

Frage	Antworten
Adversarial Legal System	Defense vs. Prosecution, Ex. cross-examining
Assembly	A gathering, Ex. Congress
Checks and Balances	Power of the branches of government to restrict each others powers.
Know the difference between Civil and Criminal Law	Civil regulates private party disputes (law suits). Criminal regulates wrong doing/crimes against the government.
Consumer Protection	Laws designed to ensure the rights of customers. Ex, consumerism and fair-trade in the market place.
Draconian Laws	Extreme punishment for minor crimes.
E Pluribus Unum	"Out of many, one"
Establishment Clause	Keeps congress from establishing religion.
Executive	President and Vice President
Expression	Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition.
Gerrymandering	Oddly shaped district designed to increase the voting strength of a particular group. Discrimination and illegal.
Judicial Review	The supreme court's power to examine the Constitutionality of a law or government action.
Jury Duty	When you go watch a case be presented in court and then decide with 11 others whether the defendant is guilty or not.
Legislative	House of Rep. and the Senate (Congress)
Line-Item Veto	Where the President/State Governor has the power to mark out certain parts of a law/bill.
North Carolina General Assembly	House + Senate.
Parole	When a prisoner is released early from prison with restrictions.
Patriot Act	A set of federal anti-terrorism measures,
Prosecutor	The person who tries to prove the defendant guilty.
Referendum	Nc people can vote directly on laws
Retribution	concerned with punishing a person who was convicted of a crime.
Senate	Upper house of Congress, based on equal representation.
Separation of Church and State	Congress can not establish a specific religion that applies to everyone.
Sherrif's department	Enforces the law for the county
Leandro Case	A lawsuit filed by five low-wealth counties because of unequal funding for education. Says everyone must get a sound basic education.
Zoning	To divide land into different parts for different uses. Done on the county level
Compare the U.S and N.C Senate	N.C Senate has 4 levels of courts for cases to be covered more in depth while federal courts only have 3 levels. Federal has a jury at district court cases but State doesn't. State gets a jury in superior court. The supreme court is the court of last resort for both state and federal.
List and detail a recurring problem in the US	Race issues are a recurring problem in the US. This is causing many people to die and multiple riots and protests against government.

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