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CJ 103 - Intro to Law and Justice Exam 3 STUDY GUIDE

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In the case of In Re Debs, the Supreme Court ruled that
strikes that hinder commence are illegal.
Which Supreme Court chief justice said, "Those who own the country ought to govern it"?
John Jay
A strict constructionist
all of the above
The chief justice in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was
Earl Warren
The view of the Court's power that maintains that it is very effective in inducing social change is the ____view.
dynamic
According to Laurence French, Standing Bear v. Crook relegated American Indians to a status equal to that of animals.
False
Worcester v. Georgia established that the federal government, not state governments, has authority over Indian affairs.
True
Blacks were the only minorities to which the Jim Crow laws were applicable.
False
The termination policy eroded the American Indians' tribal sovereignty.
True
Hadd crimes and/or their penalties can be eliminated or altered only by joint agreement between the king of Saudi Arabia and the highest Islamic religious authorities.
False
The adversarial system is so called because it evolved from trial by combat.
True
Precedent is never used to help resolve cases in civil law.
False
A French criminal investigation takes place under the presumption of guilt.
False
The first wave of the feminist movement achieved
suffrage rights for women.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women declared everything below except
all patriarchal laws should be eliminated.
According to the Princeton Review's The Best Law Schools, 1998 Edition,
none of the above
In her study of the perceptions of 424 male and female defense attorneys, Hall found that
men and women tend to have similar work values, career orientations, and perceptions of work.
Islamic law is most like which of Weber's law types?
formal-irrational
In civil law systems,
all of the above.
The primary function of socialist law is to
assure communal values as opposed to individual rights.
The legal tradition least in accordance with the rule of law is
socialist law.
Capitalism is just as evil as patriarchy in the eyes of most legal feminists.
False
For all practical purposes, not until the twentieth century could women vote, serve on a jury, freely attend college, hold public office, enter a contract, get custody of their children, or control the money they earned.
True
The first states to give women the vote were the liberal eastern states.
False
Women in the United States were not allowed to vote until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920.
True
States were least likely to want to grant blacks ____ rights.
social
The case in which the British High Court ruled that once a slave returns to a slave jurisdiction away from England, the laws of England no longer apply; the laws of the slave jurisdiction do.
The Slave, Grace
The Missouri Compromise was repealed by
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The period directly after the end of the Civil War designed to reestablish the Southern states is known as the
Reconstruction period
The leaders of the American Revolution were strong supporters of the English constitution.
True
Scott v. Sandford strongly undermined nationalist sentiments in the United States in favor of state's rights and devolutionist sentiments.
True
Because of the sheer complexity of modern societies and the intricate interaction of their component parts, each social change generates its own momentum.
True
The American Revolution signaled a rejection of all things British.
True
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