Chapter 7

Question 1

What are individual rights?

Answer 1

The accused are granted rights through common law, constitutional, statutory, and humanitarian sources. They include:

:The right to a speedy trial
:The right to legal counsel
:The right against self-incrimination
:The right not to be tried twice for the same offense
:The right to know the charges
The right to cross examine

Question 2

What is public order?

Answer 2

Community concerns that must be balanced effectively against individual rights. They include

:Conviction of the guilty
:Exoneration of the innocent
:imposition of appropriate punishment
:The protection of society
:Efficient and cost-effective procedures
:Seeing justice done

Question 3

What’s the court process and American legal system?

Answer 3

:The U.S court systems is known as one of the most legitimate means of determining guilt from innocence.

:Developed in the 13 colonies before 1789.

:Constitutional mandate created the federal judiciary as part of the three branches of government

Question 4

What dose judicial allow courts to do?

Answer 4

:Review laws and government actions.
:Strike them down if they’re unconstitutional.

Question 5

What happens in Marbury vs Madison(1803) and what did the Supreme Court say?

Answer 5

:important precedent that established judicial review.
:William Marbury never received his commission as a justice of peace.

The court said:
:Madison should’ve delivered it but the law Marbury used was unconstitutional

This ruling made the court the final interpreter of the Constitution.