Chapter 8 - THE HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF COURTS

This case set forth that the military commission as authorized after September 11, 2001, is insufficient to try terrorist suspects under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions.

 

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

• McCulloch v. Maryland.

• Plessy v. Ferguson.

• Tennessee v. Garner.

The Warren Court _____.

• Expanded the rights of due process for those accused of breaking the law.

• Ruled that religious ceremonies in public schools were constitutional.

• Ruled that the right of privacy is not implied in the Constitution.

• All of them.

This is the only right or protection in the Bill of Rights that is also included in all of the state constitutions.

• Protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

• Protection from double jeopardy.

• Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

• The right to a jury trial.

Courts are a result of the increasing sophistication of societies in which a _____ was necessary.

• Agriculture.

• Division of labor.

• Religion.

• Tool-making.

Which has affected our concept of the court?

• Religion.

• The media.

• Tradition.

• All of them.

Researchers have found similarities between the functions of modern courts and societies that were not influenced by European systems of government.

• True

• False

The United States has no centralized court system.

• True

• False

Violations of criminal law are punishable by imprisonment.

• True

• False

Trial by compurgation was a formalized type of blood feud.

• FALSE

• True

There was only one type of trial by ordeal: trial by fire (or hot iron).

• FALSE

• True