Civics Vocabulary Quiz Practice Wks 1-7

What is the legislative branch of the United States called?

• Supreme Court

• Senate

• House of Representatives

• Congress

the power of the judicial branch to review the actions of the executive and legislative branches and determine whether they are unconstitutional; established through Supreme Court case Marbury v Madison

• appeal

• jurisdiction

• judicial review

the means of mass communication in the forms of print, radio, television, and internet/social media

• media

• propaganda

• interest group

the decision of a jury based of the evidence presented during a trial (guilty or not guilty)

• verdict

• plaintiff

• defendant

1. the person being sued or charged with a crime in a civil or criminal case

2. a person who brings the case against another in a court of law

• verdict / jury

• plaintiff / defendant

• defendant / plaintiff

collection of laws brought together from ancient Greece, Rome, the Judeo-Christian tradition, and England to establish rule of law (system of written laws that all societies members agree to follow)

• civil law

• historical codes of law

• common law

a sworn body of people that hears evidence and comes to a decision (verdict) in a court of law; usually 12 people

• plaintiff

• verdict

• jury

law that deals with people under the age of 18

• constitutional law

• common law

• juvenile law

law that applies only to people in the military

• military law

• case law

• criminal law

law that deals with crimes and the punishments for those crimes.

• criminal law

• civil law

• statutory law