BUS-L 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Sole Power, First Amendment To The United States Constitution
Document Summary
Priority rules - us constitution, federal laws pursuant of usc & treaties. Classifications of laws - criminal, civil, substantive, procedural, public, private. Criminal law - law under which government prosecutes someone for committing a crime. Civil law - obligations that private parties owe to each other, gov can"t be one of these parties. Substantive law - sets rights and duties of people as they act in public. Procedural law - controls behavior of gov bodies as they establish and enforce the rules of substantive. Public law - concerns power of gov and the relationship between gov and private parties. Includes constitutional law, administrative law, and criminal law. Private law - establishes framework of legal rules that allow parties to set the rights and duties they owe each other. Article i - establishes congress (composed of senate and h of r) gives it sole power to legislate at federal level.
