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Civics American Legal System
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Subject
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civics
Instructions:
Answer 11 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Rules enforced by governments
Civil Law
Laws
Statutes
Civil Disobedience
2. Breaking a law in a nonviolent way because it goes against personal morals
Civil Disobedience
Laws
Common Law
Morals
3. The group of laws that tell which acts are crimes - how accused persons should be tried in court - and how crimes should be punished
Civil Disobedience
Statutes
Criminal Law
Common Law
4. Any behavior that is illegal because the government considers it harmful to society
Morals
Felony
Crime
Civil Disobedience
5. The group of laws that help settle disagreements between people
Felony
Civil Law
Criminal Law
Statutes
6. A body of law based on judges' decisions
Statutes
Laws
Common Law
Morals
7. Written collection of laws - often organized by subject
Criminal Law
Morals
Civil Disobedience
Legal Code
8. Beliefs about What is fair and What is right or wrong
Statutes
Morals
Legal Code
Civil Disobedience
9. Written laws made by legislatures
Crime
Common Law
Civil Law
Statutes
10. A less serious crime for which the penalty is often a fine
Civil Law
Common Law
Misdemeanor
Civil Disobedience
11. A serious crime for which the penalty can be imprisonment for more than one year
Civil Disobedience
Felony
Morals
Civil Law