Download PSCI 1040 Final | PSCI 1040 - American Government: Laws and Institutions and more Quizzes Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Bifurcated DEFINITION 1 Texas has both the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals. TERM 2 Rank of Texas's Incarceration DEFINITION 2 4th TERM 3 Rank of prison population increase DEFINITION 3 2nd TERM 4 Tort Case DEFINITION 4 large amount of money evolve TERM 5 Civil Law DEFINITION 5 the branch of law that deal with disputes between individuals or organizations, in which compensation may be awarded to the victim. TERM 6 Criminal Law DEFINITION 6 Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It is the body of rules that regulates social conduct that proscribes threatening, harming, or otherwise endangering the health, safety, and moral welfare of people. TERM 7 Felonies DEFINITION 7 A felony is a serious crime in the common law countries. The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods; other crimes were called misdemeanors. TERM 8 Misdemeanors DEFINITION 8 A misdemeanor is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems. TERM 9 Most civil cases are handled in... DEFINITION 9 District Court TERM 10 How many justice in TX Supreme C and C of Criminal Appeals DEFINITION 10 9 TERM 21 Writ of certiorari DEFINITION 21 rules of fourchoose to do the case for supreme court TERM 22 Solicitor General DEFINITION 22 The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. TERM 23 Type of Supreme C opinion DEFINITION 23 MajorConcurringDissenting TERM 24 Judicial Activism DEFINITION 24 decision change by the time TERM 25 Judicial Restrain DEFINITION 25 decision strict with precedant TERM 26 Stare decision DEFINITION 26 court give decision follow the old decision TERM 27 Writ of habeas corps DEFINITION 27 bring the body TERM 28 Establishment clause DEFINITION 28 government shall not establish nation religion. TERM 29 Free exercise clause DEFINITION 29 government cant intervene the right of people about religion. TERM 30 Voting Rights Act DEFINITION 30 abolished literacy tests and enforced 15th Amendment TERM 31 Brown V. Board of Education 1954 DEFINITION 31 end segregation of school TERM 32 Plessy V. Ferguson DEFINITION 32 Establish Jim Crow law and Separate but Equal doctrine TERM 33 Jim Crow laws DEFINITION 33 limited rights of free slaves TERM 34 Civil Right Act 1964 DEFINITION 34 protect against discrimination onrace genderemploymentpublic accommodationseducation
