Exam 1: The Nature and Sources of Law

Our rights flow from:

Administrative regulations are a type of law.

Interpretations of aspects of the right to privacy are often found in:

Your private life is protected from intrusions by other people by:

The law works to cause our society to operate in an inefficient manner.

Legal principles expressed for the first time in court decisions are called:

Law consists of:

A new state law mandates that all employers must prohibit smoking on employer premises. The law further provides that any employer who allows an employee or a client/ customer to smoke on its premises is subject to a court order requiring the employer to enforce the law. Describe this statute in terms of all possible classification methods.

The group of time-honored rules that courts have used to solve similar problems for decades is called stare decisis.

Courts can create law.

Within each state in the United States, only one constitution is in force.

The right to privacy applies to protect you from unreasonable searches:

____ is a body of principles that establishes the structure of a government and the relationship of that government to the people.

In the United States today, we generally have one law court and one equity court.

One advantage of our current legal system is that the growth of technology has not created many new laws.

Rights guaranteed in the United States Constitution:

Statutory law is created by:

When a court decides a new question or problem, the decision is called a precedent.

Rights always stand alone, without any duties.

Law is often defined as the body of principles that courts will enforce.