BLAW 3310 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY
●● What causes changes in law to cause changes in acceptable
behavior?
Answer: The legal system provides a way to bring about changes in
"acceptable" behavior
*Something you are not used to doing, but you can do it now
●● How did the government get powers when they were not listed in the
federal constitution?
Answer: The states
●● Three main branches of the government
Answer: Legislative -Congress (House & Senate); makes the laws
Executive -President and his cabinet; implements the laws (executive
orders)
Judicial -Supreme Court; interpret the laws
●● What happens when a law contradicts the Constitution?
,Answer: It is considered "unconstitutional"
*Known as the judicial review
●● State Constitution
Answer: *The highest law of the land for the state law.
Specify how state officials are chosen and removed, how laws are
passed, how the court systems run, and how finances and revenues are
paid and collected
●● Who creates statutory law?
Answer: The legislatures
●● What is judicial review, and what do courts do with federal and state
statutes?
Answer: Judicial review is the court's authority to interpret the law.
Federal courts may review statutes passed by Congress to ensure they do
not violate the US Constitution.
State courts may review statutes passed by their legislatures to ensure
they do not violate the constitution of the state or of the United States.
, ●● How many statutes get sent to the president each year to be signed
into law?
Answer: 200-300
●● What a bi-cameral legislature is and why we use them?
Answer: Two legislatures containing a House of Representatives and a
Senate dividing power between two houses is intended to serve as an
added check on government power
●● How is an administrative agency created?
Answer: It is created by a delegation of legislative power to the
executive branch
●● To get a dispute resolved by a court, you must bring a case
Answer:
●● What precedent mean in case law?
Answer: Judges look for guidance by studying decisions from earlier
recorded cases. It is applied to the facts of the new cases under
consideration and helps to guide the decision.
●● Stare decisis
Answer: The use of precedent in deciding current cases, "to stand on
decided cases"
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY
●● What causes changes in law to cause changes in acceptable
behavior?
Answer: The legal system provides a way to bring about changes in
"acceptable" behavior
*Something you are not used to doing, but you can do it now
●● How did the government get powers when they were not listed in the
federal constitution?
Answer: The states
●● Three main branches of the government
Answer: Legislative -Congress (House & Senate); makes the laws
Executive -President and his cabinet; implements the laws (executive
orders)
Judicial -Supreme Court; interpret the laws
●● What happens when a law contradicts the Constitution?
,Answer: It is considered "unconstitutional"
*Known as the judicial review
●● State Constitution
Answer: *The highest law of the land for the state law.
Specify how state officials are chosen and removed, how laws are
passed, how the court systems run, and how finances and revenues are
paid and collected
●● Who creates statutory law?
Answer: The legislatures
●● What is judicial review, and what do courts do with federal and state
statutes?
Answer: Judicial review is the court's authority to interpret the law.
Federal courts may review statutes passed by Congress to ensure they do
not violate the US Constitution.
State courts may review statutes passed by their legislatures to ensure
they do not violate the constitution of the state or of the United States.
, ●● How many statutes get sent to the president each year to be signed
into law?
Answer: 200-300
●● What a bi-cameral legislature is and why we use them?
Answer: Two legislatures containing a House of Representatives and a
Senate dividing power between two houses is intended to serve as an
added check on government power
●● How is an administrative agency created?
Answer: It is created by a delegation of legislative power to the
executive branch
●● To get a dispute resolved by a court, you must bring a case
Answer:
●● What precedent mean in case law?
Answer: Judges look for guidance by studying decisions from earlier
recorded cases. It is applied to the facts of the new cases under
consideration and helps to guide the decision.
●● Stare decisis
Answer: The use of precedent in deciding current cases, "to stand on
decided cases"
