Unit Six

Question 1

The study of law

Answer 1

Jurisprudence

Question 2

Stare decisis

Answer 2

The practice of using earlier Judicial rulings as a basic for deciding cases

Question 3

A court order that guarantees a person who is arrested the right to appear before a judge in a court of law

Answer 3

Writ of habeas corpus

Question 4

A law that punishes a person accused of a crime without a trial or a fair hearing in court.

Answer 4

Bill of attainder

Question 5

A law that would allow a person to be punished for an action that was not against the law when it was committed.

Answer 5

Ex post facto law

Question 6

A group of from 16 to 23 citizens that hears evidence a prosecutor presents.

Answer 6

Grand jury

Question 7

Means that The judge believes the person obstructing or interfering with the judicial process.

Answer 7

Contempt of court

Question 8

The juries that hear trials

Answer 8

Petit juries

Question 9

A trial by a judge

Answer 9

Bench trial

Question 10

Concerned with disputes between people of groups of people or between the government and its citizens

Answer 10

Civil law

Question 11

A legal action in which a person or groups sues to collect damages for some harm that is done.

Answer 11

Lawsuit

Question 12

The person who files the lawsuit

Answer 12

Plaintiff

Question 13

The party being sued

Answer 13

Defendant

Question 14

An agreement between two or more parties

Answer 14

Contract

Question 15

A special kind of lawsuit

Answer 15

Suits of equity

Question 16

A court order commanding a person or group to stop a certain action.

Answer 16

Injunction

Question 17

A formal notice that a lawsuit is being brought

Answer 17

Complaint

Question 18

Crimes defined in the state’s criminal laws

Answer 18

Penal code

Question 19

Suit of equity

Answer 19

Special kind of lawsuit

Question 20

Larceny

Answer 20

The taking of property unlawfully

Question 21

Vandalism

Answer 21

Deliberate destruction of property

Question 22

Fraud

Answer 22

Taking property by dishonest means

Question 23

Mandatory sentence

Answer 23

A judge must impose whatever sentence the law directs

Question 24

Summons

Answer 24

Directing someone to appear in court

Question 25

Arraignment

Answer 25

A hearing where the suspect pleads guilty or innocent to the charges

Question 26

Prosecution

Answer 26

The state's side of the proceedings

Question 27

Testimony

Answer 27

The statements the witness makes under oath

Question 28

Cross-examination

Answer 28

Designed to cast out doubt on the truth or reliability of the witness's testimony

Question 29

Acquittal

Answer 29

A vote of not guilty

Question 30

Hung jury

Answer 30

Rules the trial mistrial, must decide whether to drop the charges or ask for a retrial

Question 31

Juvenile

Answer 31

A person not yet legally an adult

Question 32

Juvenile delinquent

Answer 32

A child or teenager who commits a serious crime or repeatedly breaks the Laws

Question 33

Offenders

Answer 33

Lawbreakers

Question 34

Foreign policy

Answer 34

Strategies and principles to guide nations

Question 35

National security

Answer 35

The ability to keep a country safe from attack or harm

Question 36

Diplomacy

Answer 36

The process of conducting relations with forgein governments

Question 37

Foreign aid

Answer 37

Money, military assistance, food, or supplies given to help a country

Question 38

Alliances

Answer 38

Formal agreements or unions among nations

Question 39

Trade sanctions

Answer 39

Efforts to punish a nation by imposing certain trade barriers

Question 40

Embargoes

Answer 40

Prohibiting ships, planes, trains, or trucks from entering or exiting a nation's ports or crossing its borders

Question 41

Isolationism

Answer 41

When a nation does not form an alliance with other countries, and remains neutral during disputes and war

Question 42

Collective security

Answer 42

The formation of political and military alliances to protect member nations from communist aggression

Question 43

Disarmament

Answer 43

Arm deduction

Question 44

Internationalism

Answer 44

The idea that individual nations promote common aims through membership in an organization made up of many nations

Question 45

Developing nations

Answer 45

Countries that are struggling to build industrial economies And meet the basic needs of their people

Question 46

Developed nations

Answer 46

Nations that have already built strong industrial economies

Question 47

Nuclear proliferation

Answer 47

The growth and spread of nuclear weapons

Question 48

Secular

Answer 48

Non religious

Question 49

Apartheid

Answer 49

A government plan of racial segregation and discrimination against the country's black population

Question 50

Interventionist

Answer 50

Becoming involved in the internal affairs of another country