+
Related Flashcards
Related Topics
Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
|
The provision in the Constitution ensuring that each state will accept the decisions of civic counts in other states.
|
Full Faith and Credit Clause
|
|
A legal process for returning criminals to the place from which they fled.
|
Extradition
|
|
A proposed law
|
Proposition
|
|
A method of refering a bill to the voters for approval before the bill can become a law
|
Referendum
|
|
Orders issued by the head of the executive branch to set up methods of inforcing law.
|
Executive orders
|
|
An order to pay out government funds.
|
Warrant
|
|
A system in which government jobs are given to people recommended by political party leaders and office holders
|
Patronage
|
|
A set of criminal laws
|
Penal code
|
|
The person or company filing the complaint in a civil lawsuit
|
Plaintiff
|
|
State courts that hear civil cases involving less than $5000.00
|
Small claims courts
|
|
The chief executive of state government
|
Governor
|
|
Court cases in which a person is accused of breaking a criminal law
|
Criminal cases
|
|
The official who takes over if the governor dies, resigns, or is removed from office
|
Lieutenant governor
|
|
Court cases involving disputes over money or property between individuals or businesses
|
Civil cases
|
|
An area that is governed by a country and is eligible to become a state *** Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands, and Samoa
|
Territories
|
