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What is Compulsory Schooling? |
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Period of education that is required of persons, imposed by law. |
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What is today's In-Class Activity? |
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Meat Racket Chapters One and Two |
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What is the focus of today's agenda? |
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Introduction to and Study of Legal Philosophy |
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When was mandatory sentencing put into effect? |
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What is one of the big consequences caused by mandatory sentencing? |
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Most people are forced into making plea bargains, as it is better than being named guilty, whether or not they actually are guilty. |
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Are eye-witness testimonies reliable? |
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Can you use a polygraph test as evidence in a trial? |
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No, unless a defendant has once used a polygraph and it is presented to show that they told the truth. |
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Prior bad acts cannot be presented as evidence in a trial unless it is? |
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Shown to indicate a relevant pattern of criminal behavior. |
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Fingerprints are normally analyzed using not sophisticated technology but rather by what? |
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Someone eye-balling two fingerprints and comparing them using a point system. |
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A universal law throughout space and time, that is morally based. It states that one does not have to follow unjust laws. |
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Italy has a criminal system in which a criminal is free until they do what? |
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A jury does not find one innocent, they find one either guilty or what? |
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What is the Affluenza defense? |
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Because one was raised in an affluent family, one was never taught wrong from right. |
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What do most believers of Natural Law, aka a Naturalist, believe exists in everyone? |
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Twenty percent of the population is what? |
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Ninety-five percent of psychopaths never do what? |
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Psychopaths have a connection to what? |
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Most people who join the military, have a connection to what? |
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40 to 60 Percent of CEOs are what? |
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Why are psychopaths good business men? |
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They are charming, intelligent, and manipulative, while staying somewhat out of the spot light. |
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What is Legal Positivism? |
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All law comes from the sovereign, and the people simply follow. |
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In Legal Positivism there is no connection between law and what? |
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Legal Positivism is a more practical legal philosophy based on what assumptions? |
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The government exists in order to make sure the citizens have the greatest quality of life possible. Life is predictable and society is safe and orderly. |
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The right to education and health care exists in European countries but is not considered a right where? |
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In the United States of America |
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What is a Social Contract? |
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A contract between the citizens and the government that states that the government does not create unjust laws so the citizens will follow the laws. |
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There is no what, in legal positivism? |
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Philosophy that the law is flexible and must adapt as societal norms change. |
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What percent of the internet is Darknet? |
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The illegal sector of the internet where if you have the money you can do anything you want. It must be accessed using certain browsers. |
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What influences a judge's decisions? |
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Their own experiences and influences |
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Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life to prevent them from doing what? |
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Becoming politicians and being corrupt |
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Judges that are elected are influenced by what? |
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Their pursuit to stay elected and be re-elected |
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You can opt-out of K-12 compulsory schooling if you can prove what? |
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That your children are being home-schooled. |
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The Supreme Court says that one of the most absolute natural rights of parents is what? |
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To raise their child in the way they see fit. |
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Criminals who are parents are given multiple what, to get their life back on track for their children? |
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Educating a Child is morally right because it allows that child to become what? |
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A functioning member of society. |
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What is the illiteracy population of Mexico? |
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We are going over what on Thursday? |
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What do we need to read by next week? |
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Meat Racket Chapters One and Two |
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We are going over what on Thursday? |
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