Civic Principles Quiz

carries out and enforces laws

• judiciary branch

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• all of the above

the responsibilities of a citizen.

• duty of a citizen

• law enforcement laws

• do what is right

• legislative branch

is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.

• Limitless Laws

• World War I

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

defines the fundamental law of the U.S. federal government, setting forth the three principal branches of the federal government and outlining their jurisdictions.

• Nobel Peace Prize

• Constitution

• Stafford Act

• Legal duties

gives each branch of the government the opportunity to check each other to prevent another branch from becoming too powerful.

• Cash and Balances

• Bounced Checks

• Bad Check Writing

• Checks and Balances

gives each branch of the government the opportunity to check each other to prevent another branch from becoming too powerful.

• substantial evidence

• exculpatory evidence

• inculpatory evidence

• no evidence

These courts review the procedures and the decisions in the trial court to make sure that the proceedings were fair and that the proper law was applied correctly. 

• Apellate

• Civil

• Criminal

• Superior

It's a “body of law” based on court decisions rather than codes or statutes.

• common law robbery

• injustice

• common law

to the type of trial that does not involve a jury but is conducted by the judge alone, in which the judge both decides the facts of the case and applies the law.

• jury trial

• bench trial

• no trial

• criminal trial

Evidence that tends to decrease the likelihood of fault or guilt.

• evidence by investigation

• lack of evidence

• excalputory evidence

• inculpatory evidence