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  1. Propaganda poster assignment
  2. Constitution Scavenger Hunt 
  3. Poverty and Obesity graphing assignment
  4. Government beginnings test review
  5. Census Practice Test
    1. Hold the "control" button, click the link, choose "Download Linked File"
  6. My Correlation assignment
  7. Executive Branch Test Review
  8. Election project page  
    1. Poll 1 results.
    2. Poll 2 results.
    3. Poll 3 results.
    4. Poll 4 results.
    5. Final election results.
  9. Candidate Calculator
  10. USA Today Candidate Match game
  11. Meanie or a Weenie? Politically speaking, find out if you're a meanie or a weenie and for whom you should vote.
  12. 2008 Florida Amendments | Link to a "cheat-sheet."
  13. Predict the electoral map. Who's the best political prognosticator (that means predictor). We'll find out.
  14. Flow chart showing how a bill becomes a law.
  15. Who's your rep?
  16. Florida Amendment votes/predictions/results.
  17. Congress vocab terms
  18. House of Reps by political party graph
  19. Graphs 101 (spending, income, candy-eating)
  20. Federal outlays (spending) and income graph.
  21. Congress Test Review
  22. Federal Courts Test Review
  23. You be the Jury 
  24. Mock Trial

 

 

 Federal Court System

  1. Sources of law
    1. Social Contract - remember this?
      1. It says people (social) agree to give up freedoms to the government in return for government protection (contract).
    2. Common Law
      1. This is based on tradition. It is simply a state's customs or the tradition of court decisions.
      2. CASE-----> DECISION-----> PRECEDENT-----> CASE 2-----> DECISION 2------> PRECEDENT REINFORCED-----> TRADITION
    3. Constitutional Law
      1. This is just the Constitution. That seems very simple, but the Supreme Court must interpret exactly what is meant.
    4. Statutory Law
      1. These are laws (statutes) passed by a legislature or Congress.
  2. Two main categories of law
    1. Civil law = disputes between people, usually over money.
    2. Criminal law = dispute between a person (defendant) and the public as a whole (often the state).
    3. Examples...
      1. Civil - John Doe v. Mary Jones. John Doe is suing Mary Jones over a broken contract.
      2. Criminal - People of the State of Florida v. Tom Smith. Tom is on trial for burglary.
    4. Two terms
      1. Plaintiff - the person/group that feels they've "been wronged" and thus have the complaint.
      2. Defendant - the person at whom the complaint is directed.
        1. In criminal cases, the plaintiff is always the people of the state.
  3. Jurisdiction
    1. defined = the authority of a court
      1. Geographic - simply an area
      2. Power to start or hear a case
        1. Original Jurisdiction = authority to start a case.
        2. Appellate Jurisdiction = authority to hear an appeal from a lower court.
  4. Federal Court Structure - (see chart p. 437 for others)
__________________________________________________________________
     STATE COURT SYSTEM         ||        FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM
________________________________||________________________________
      State Supreme Court       ||C        U.S. Supreme Court
                |               ||O                 |
                |               ||N                 |
     State Appellate Courts     ||ST     12 U.S. Courts of Appeals
                |               ||TI                |
                |               ||IO                |
   Local (County) Trial Courts  ||TN     96 U.S. District Courts
________________________________||U?______________________________

The only time you can cross from state to federal sides is if the Constitution is in question.

 

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