Identify the origin of the U.S. legal system.
The U.S. legal system is derived from several different sources such as the English common law and Roman civil law.
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- How are ethics reflected in laws?
- Think about consequences-based ethics and rule-based ethical reasoning. Write a brief paragraph describing a scenario in which breaking the rules has an ethical outcome.
- How are ethical decisions reasoned out?
- How does the majority rule principle demonstrate consequences-based reasoning in our laws?
- Why do the two forms of ethical reasoning, consequences-based and rule-based, usually result in the same decision, and what is the probable cause when they do not?
- Describe the differences between criminal and civil law, substantive and procedural law, and business law and other forms of law.
- How are conflicts between constitutional, statutory, case, and administrative laws resolved?
- How are constitutional, statutory, case, and administrative laws created?
- How can a single act violate more than one kind of law, such as both civil law and criminal law? Give an example.
- What determines whether a particular law, statute, ordinance, or regulation is valid?
- How is power allocated between federal, state, and local governments?
- Describe the differences between common law and positive law.
- Explain the stages in the growth of law.
- What powers do the courts have when personal or private property is damaged or destroyed?
- Why do societies need laws and courts?