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| What assignments are there for this week? |
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Read Chapters One and Four of The Legal Environment Today, 8th Edition.
Read Articles of the US Constitution
Read the First 10 Amendments of US Constitution
Read the 13th and 14th Amendments of the US Constitution |
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| A law that is written down. Legislation at congressional level, at state level, and ordinances at county and city level. |
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| What is Constitutional Law? |
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| The ultimate end-all law written in the US Constitution that state laws can't break. |
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| What is Legal Preemption? |
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| When state law and federal law conflict. |
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| What state has the longest constitution and no homerule? |
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| A judge made law, it is highly factually based. |
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| What are examples of common law? |
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| A Contract, Annual Summary Books, Stare Decisis, and Precedence etc. |
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| What is Home Rule in the United States? |
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| An amendment to the state constitution grants cities, municipalities, and/or counties the ability to pass laws to govern themselves as they see fit. |
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| Body of law created by the federal government of a country |
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| Law of each separate U.S. state with their own state constitutions, state governments, and state courts. |
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| What is Stand Your Ground Law? |
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| You can defend yourself from being killed using reasonable force, outside of your home, without running away as long as you have a reasonable fear of being killed. |
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| What is Self Defense Law? |
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| The use of reasonable force to protect oneself or members of the family from bodily harm from the attack of an aggressor, if the defender has reason to believe he/she/they is/are in danger. |
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| What is King of the Castle law? |
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| If you are threatened in your own home you have the right to defend yourself. |
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| What are Annual Summary Books? |
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| Books that come out each year that summarize common law |
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| What is Administrative Law? |
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| Laws created by government agencies that are as strong as those created by a legislature. |
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| It becomes a law once congress ratifies it. |
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| What is an example of a law the preempts the constitution? |
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| What do people need to trust Common Law? |
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| Common Law needs to be consistent. |
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| If you cannot italicize a foreign language word it must be what? |
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| What is Legal Precedence? |
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| A legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court or other judicial body adopts when deciding later cases with similar issues or facts based upon earlier trial results. |
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| What do the US Supreme Court do? |
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| Decide whether something is constitutional, scrutiny, etc. |
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| The legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent. |
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| What are the two levels of scrutiny? |
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Rational Basis Review
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Strict Scrutiny
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Intermediate Scrutiny |
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| How does a law pass Rational Basis Review? |
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| If a law doesn't have a good reason to be passed then it won't be passed, otherwise it will. |
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| How does a law pass Strict Scrutiny? |
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| To pass the legislature must have passed the law to further a "compelling governmental interest," and must have narrowly tailored the law to achieve that interest. |
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| What is Intermediate Scrutiny? |
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| Scrutiny that falls between rational basis review and strict scrutiny. |
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| Rights enumerated by the constitution are not what? |
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| Absolute, all rights have limits. |
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| Protected Speech does not allow someone to do what? |
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| Threaten people, incite panic or fear, or discriminate against others. |
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| The constitution does not specifically and strictly protect what? |
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| Many rights are given up based on the what? |
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| Legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person |
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| Private Entities can restrict the rights of their members but they cannot do what? |
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| Discriminate against their members |
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| You don't say free speech in BLS 211, you say what? |
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| What are Exigent Circumstances? |
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| Exceptions to the general requirement of a warrant under the Fourth Amendment searches and seizures. |
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| The government is almost never able to meet the conditions of what? |
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| The constitution doesn't include this specific word? |
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| The Supreme Court mostly ignores what amendment? |
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| What are a few examples of Privacy Rights Cases? |
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Love v. Virginia
Interracial Marriage Case
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Roe v. Wade |
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| What does Roe v. Wade state? |
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| A government entity cannot interfere in a relationship between a person and their physician. |
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| What did the Defense of Marriage Act do? |
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| Defined Marriage based on federal interest and federal law. |
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| What are rights expressed in the constitution but not directly written? |
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| Corporations cannot plea what amendment in court? |
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