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- 1. Multiple Choice
What are the purpose of laws?
They help people get along.
They allow the police to have unlimited power.
They make the government great.
To keep people down and out.
- 2. Multiple Choice
All of these are characteristics of good laws except....
fair
reasonable
understandable
dishonest
- 3. Multiple Choice
If a law is reasonable, the punishment should fit the crime. True or false.
True
False
- 4. Fill in the Blank
The earliest example of a written code of law was the Code of _______________
- 5. Multiple Choice
Common law is based on ______________ instead of a legal code.
common crimes
court decisions
easily understood laws
legal codes
- 6. Multiple Choice
Precedent means
Xavier is here today
the life and times of Lisa Ndetome
the rulings that will be determined in the future
the rulings set forth in previous cases
- 7. Multiple Choice
Crimes can be graded as either felonies or ______________.
civil cases
misdemeanors
capital offenses
celebrations
- 8. Fill in the Blank
A civil case brought before a court is called a
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