Question: one answer please The 5 th and 14 th Amendments say that life, liberty and property are secure and cannot be taken without equal protection

one answer please

  1. The 5thand 14thAmendments say that life, liberty and property are secure and cannot be taken without

equal protection

due process of law

the right of ex post facto

  1. The best way to find a precedent that you know may be helpful to you in court, is to look it up using a

Case citation

a colleague's help

a statute

  1. Where you cannot tell from its wording the meaning of a statute, the statute may be

constitutional,

Unconstitutional

conditionally acceptable

QUESTION 4

  1. When a court does not disturb a previous decision and "lets it stand" this is known as

precedent

judge made law

stare decisis

QUESTION 5

  1. Where a legislature passes a law aimed at declaring a specific person guilty of a crime, without a trial, this is known as

ex post facto,

a bill of attainder

tyranny

QUESTION 6

  1. Where a person is convicted of committing a crime by doing an act, which was not a crime when he did the act, this conviction will be overturned because the conviction was based on a law that violated

equal protection,

due process of law

ex post facto

QUESTION 7

  1. Where someonewritessomething that isn't true about someone and disseminates (tells) it to the world as being true, this may be

slander

opinion

libel

  1. When someone commits a crime the first thing the prosecutor looks for which shows the voluntary action by the accused is known in Latin as

mens rea

ActusReus

concurrence

QUESTION 9

  1. . Doing nothing, may be a crime, if a special relationship between the parties creates a

lawsuit

duty

bystander relationship

QUESTION 10

  1. Where an objective, rather than a subjective view of someone's actions is taken these may be deemed the actions of

a criminal

a reasonable man

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