BLAW 280 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Voidable, Quasi-Contract, Great Recession
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3 important words: perspective: understand that there are different perspectives, perception: power of perception. how you perceive internally and externally, context: Affects all people from ceo to children. Affects most of life from work to leisure. Virtually all known civilizations throughout history have had some kind of law. Televised trails often draw a large audience (most televised trails are celebrities or murder) Law: a rule of cvil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a sate, communing what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong (blackstone) Founding fathers created a multi-level government which guaranteed citizens" rights. (branches of government; checks and balances; didn"t want anyone to have too much power) Accumulation of precedent in legal cases makes up the common law ( prior decided legal cases that decide common law) Statuses are passed by the legislative body ( laws are branch of government; congress makes laws too)
