3.10 Sources and Types of Laws

The Code of Hammurabi (1772 BC) includes laws focusing on contracts. What type of U.S. law is based on the Code of Hammurabi?

• Civil

• Constitutional

• Criminal

• Military

The list below lists examples of laws.Which list represents military law?

Category A

Assault, Murder, Theft

Category B

Adoption, Contract, Disputes, Personal Injury

Category C

Abandonment of post, Conduct unbecoming of an officer, Mutiny

Category D

Discrimination, Eminent domain, Treason

• Category A

• Category B

• Category C

• Category D

The passage below is from a U.S. Supreme Court opinion announcement. According to the passage, which action did the U.S. Supreme Court find constitutional?

In 1989 the court held in Stanford versus Kentucky that the Constitution allows states to impose the death penalty on an offender who is 16 or 17 years old when he committed the crime.

In the interpretation of its terms we have established... the necessity of ... standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who are under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed.

• The death penalty may be imposed only on adults.

• The death penalty may be imposed only on juveniles.

• The death penalty may be imposed on both adults and juveniles.

• The death penalty may be imposed on neither adults nor juveniles.

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law established by the outcome of former cases

• case law

• civil law

• common law

• constitutional law

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law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs

• common law

• civil law

• case law

• constitutional law

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legal precedence based on customs and prior legal decisions; used in civil cases

• common law

• civil law

• case law

• constitutional law

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the interpretation and implementation of the U.S. Constitution

• constitutional law

• civil law

• case law

• common law

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law that deals with crimes and the punishments associated with those crimes

• criminal law

• juvenile law

• military law

• statutory law

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law that deals with the actions and well-being of persons who are not yet adults

• statutory law

• military law

• juvenile law

• criminal law

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laws that have been developed to meet the needs of the military

• statutory law

• military law

• juvenile law

• criminal law