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Part 1

Question 1. What is the doctrine of stare decisis, and why is it important?

Question 2. What is a cause of action? What does it mean to say that a person does not have a valid cause of action.

Question 3. Why is there no one "right" answer to a legal problem?

Part 2

Question 1. What are the two primary functions of the U.S. Constitution?

Question 2. Read the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights located in Appendix A. Then answer the following questions:
a.Which article deals specifically with the legislature? With the executive? With the judiciary? (This may seem like trivia necessary only for Jeopardy contestants, but lawyers often refer to Article I, Article II, or Article III powers.)
b. Which amendment states that the powers not specifically delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states?
c. Make a list of the rights protected by the first ten amendments.

Question 3. What is the common law?

Question 4. What does it mean to say the common law has been codified? That a statute is in derogation of the common law?

Part 3

Question 1. What are the three major ways in which attorneys categorize the law?

Question 2. Name at least four ways in which civil law differs from criminal law.

Question 3. What must be present for a contract to be valid?