Multiple Choice
Match the term its description .
-Alien and Sedition Acts
A) a person who supports a strong, centralized government
B) a legislative act that inflicts capital punishment upon named persons without a judicial trial
C) a right existing under natural law, independent of manmade law
D) four federal laws enacted in 1798 in anticipation of war with France that required alien registration, empowered the president to deport all aliens from nations that were at war with the United States
E) a law making a person criminally liable for an act that was not criminal at the time it was committed
F) a person who opposes establishment of a strong, centralized government in favor of local control
G) principle that all people and the government itself are obliged to follow legitimately enacted and fairly enforced laws
H) the power of the judiciary, as the final interpreter of the law, to declare an act of a coordinate governmental branch of state unconstitutional
I) a writ whose purpose is to obtain immediate relief from illegal imprisonment by having the "body" (i.e., the prisoner) delivered from custody and brought before that court
J) the concept that there exists, independent of manmade law, a law laid down by God or by nature, which human society must observe in order to be happy and at peace
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