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The Law
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"Better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer"
--William Blackstone
--William Blackstone
Vocabulary
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Quizizz™
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Ms. Holder
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The laws in our nation are based on ideas, traditions and laws passed down through generations. A look at the past reveals the influences and sources of our current laws today.
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Those that govern have tremendous power to potential take life, liberty and property. However, institutions and legal processes are put in place to protect individual rights and restrain the government from abusing that power.
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Laws help provide for our general safety and ensure our rights against abuses by other people, by organizations, and by the government itself. In the United States, there are two major types of laws that can affect you directly.
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In the justice system, most cases are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The civil cases dealing with disputes between parties, and the criminal cases where someone is accused of breaking the law. These are their stories....
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While many laws are fairly absolute in their black and white interpretation, there are many laws in place that provided challenges to interpreting the law and how to enforce it.
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Among the people of the world, the exists certain rights the go beyond borders, that are inherent in all humans. Rights the Enlightenment thinks might have called universal laws. Today we call them human rights and they are the cornerstone of international laws.
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The court room can feel like a battlefield with “shots” fired back and forth from adversaries who lay out strategy and tactics to win. However, where real war uses live ammunition to win battles, advocates use evidence in a competing battle of arguments and evidence to win cases.
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