Legal System Quiz

In the United States today, law courts and equity courts generally are merged.

• True

• False

Administrative agencies are usually controlled by the judicial branch of the government.

• True

• False

Intrastate commerce is commerce between two or more states.

• True

• False

The world's two great systems of law are the English common law and the Napoleonic Code.

• True

• False

The doctrine of stare decisis requires lower courts to follow established case law in deciding similar cases.

• True

• False

Our law codes today are similar to those of civilizations thousands of years old.

• True

• False

The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a federal statute.

• True

• False

Laws made by administrative agencies are often called

• a. ordinances.

• b. guidelines.

• c. rules and regulations.

• d. standards.

The document that sets forth the framework of a government and its relationship to the people it governs is

• a. the Bill of Rights.

• b. an ordinance.

• c. a constitution.

• d. the Uniform Commercial Code.

At what level are laws created in the United States?

• federal government

• state government

• local government

• all of these