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Reservation: <em>a legal way of making a provision less enforceable than it might be otherwise.</em>
Limited Government: <em>a basic principle of our constitutional system. Limits government to powers provided to it by the people.</em>
Separation of Powers: <em>the division of power among branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial)</em>
Statutes: <em>written laws enacted by legislatures.</em>
Criminal Law: <em>the branch of law dealing with crimes and their punishment.</em>
Felony: <em>a serious criminal offense punishable by a prison sentence of more than one year.</em>
Misdemeanor <em>a criminal offence less serious then a felony punishable by a prison sentence of one year or less.</em>
Civil Law: <em>all law that does not involve criminal matters, such as tort and contract law. Civil law usually deals with private rights of individuals, groups, or businesses.</em>
Civil Action: <em>a noncriminal lawsuit, brought to enforce a right or redress a wrong.</em>
Defendant: <em>the person against whom a claim is made. In a civil suit, the defendant is a person being sued; in criminal case, the defendant is a person charged with committing a crime.</em>
Plainiff: <em>in a civil case the injured party who brings the legal action against the alleged wrongdoer.</em>
Checks and Balances: <em>the power of each of the three branches of government (legislative, judicial, executive) to limit the other branches' power, so as to prevent abuse.</em>
Veto: <em>prohibit; in government, the veto is the power of the chief executive to prevent enactment of a bill (i.e., to prevent the bill from becoming a law).</em>
Judicial Review:<em> the process by which courts decide whether the laws passed by congress or state legislatives are constitutional.</em>
Unconstitutional: <em>confliction with some provision of the Constitution</em>
Federalism: <em>the division of powers between the stats and the federal government.</em>
Bill of Rights: <em>the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which guarantee basic individual rights to all persons in the United States.</em>
Prosecutor: <em>the state or federal government's attorney in a criminal care.</em>
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: <em>the level of proof required to convict a person of a crime. It does not mean "Convinced 100%" but does mean there are no doubts as to guilt</em>
Preponderance of the Evidence: <em> usually the standard of proof used in a civil suit; the burden of proof that a party must meet in order to win the lawsuit. To win, a party must provide evidence that is more convincing that the other side's evidence.</em>
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