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Flashcards by McKenzie Shore, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by McKenzie Shore
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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