SS.7.CG.3.10 Sources and types of law

The procedures put in place to assure fairness in the law is called __ process

The idea that no one is above the law is called

• Due Process

• Rule of Law

• Common Law

• ex post facto

What is one ancient influence on our laws today?

• Hammurabi's Code

• Civil Law

• Twelve Tables

• Criminal Law

This term refers to laws passed by a legislature

• Statutory Law

• Common Law

• Constitutional Law

• Civil Law

This term refers to laws based on precedent, or based on earlier decisions of judges

• Common Law

• Military Law

• Civil Law

• Statutory Law

The legal process dealing with one person suing another is called

• Criminal law

• Civil law

• Constitutional law

• Case law

These laws, made illegal in the constitution, say that someone can't be punished for an action that was legal before a law was passed making it illegal

• writ of habeas corpus

• writ of certiorari

• Ex post facto

• Case law

A court order to bring a person before the court is called

• writ of certiorari

• ex post facto

• writ of habeas corpus

• Case law

Local laws are referred to as

• statutes

• ordinances

What is NOT a role of juries?

• Listen to the evidence

• Deliberate with fellow jurors

• Render a verdict in a case

• Use personal opinions in declaring someone guilty or not guilty