Deck 1: Myth and Reality in the Judicial Process

Question 1

A negative effect of the Perry Mason syndrome is that it may cause:

A)jurors to acquit defendants based on lack of DNA evidence
B)jurors to expect witnesses to confess in open court
C)judges to hold attorneys in contempt during preliminary hearings
D)Colonel's to refuse to take the witness stand in court

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A ________________ predicts that two concepts will increase in size together.

A)negative relationship
B)correlative hypothesis
C)regression analysis
D)positive relationship

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The first step when conducting social science research is:

A)operationalizing the dependent variable
B)establishing a research question
C)stating a hypothesis
D)developing a theory

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison (1803) established the Court's power of __________.

A)judicial review
B)stare decisis
C)writ of mandamus
D)original jurisdiction

Question 5

Which of the following best defines the term public law?

A)law that governs the relationships between and among individuals
B)rules and regulations issued by administrative agencies
C)law that deals with the relationship between individuals and the state
D)law detailing how individual legal rights are enforced

Question 6

A common law system is based on

A)a fixed body of written rules and statutes
B)the codes of the Roman Empire
C)the principle of jurisprudence constante
D)judge-made law in the form of judicial decisions, or precedent

Question 7

Which of the following best defines the term positive law?

A)the idea that law reflects a built-in sense of right and wrong
B)man-made law that confers or denies privileges to individuals or groups
C)a legal system based on precedent
D)a legal system based on God's law

Question 8

Which of the following is not true regarding a constitutional decision of the Supreme Court?

A)it can be undone by another court decision
B)it can be undone by an amendment to the Constitution
C)it can be undone by the passage of federal legislation
D)it is based on an interpretation of the Constitution

Question 9

An example of an executive order is:

A)a curfew passed by a local city council requiring children 12 years of age and younger to be in their homes by a certain time.
B)the Civil Rights Act of 1964
C)President Truman directing the Secretary of Commerce to seize the steel mills during the Korean War
D)the Supreme Court's decision in City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

Question 10

Which of the following is not an example of law?

A)constitutions
B)ordinances
C)popular legal culture
D)statutes

Question 11

One of the first written sets of laws that is still intact today is:

A)the Code of Hammurabi
B)the Law of the Twelve Tables
C)the U.S. Constitution
D)the Magna Carta

Question 12

The following hypothesis is a ______________________ hypothesis: The older the Supreme Court precedent, the lower the likelihood that a lower court will follow that precedent.

A)correlative
B)positive relationship directional hypothesis
C)negative relationship directional hypothesis
D)none of the above