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1. Explain the significance of a Majority Opinion, 5 Members of the US Supreme Court
2. What is Federalism?
3. What is Judicial Review?
4. Explain the Supremacy Clause for Congress?
5. Name 3 express powers of the United States Congress, Article 1, USC?
6. Who has the burden of proof in a Texas civil trial and what is that burden?
7. What is a Writ of Certiorari?
8. What is Subject Matter Jurisdiction?
9. What is Personal Jurisdiction?
10. What is Venue?
11. List the freedoms provided by the First Amendment
12. What are Police Powers under the Constitution?
13. Name the states subject to the 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals?
14. What are the elements of a Civil Petition in a Texas District Court?
15. Explain Punitive Damages
. 16. Explain Compensatory Damages.
17. What is a Deposition?
18. What is a Subpoena?
19. What is an Interrogatory?
20. What is Voir Dire?
21. What is an Opening Statement?
22. What is a Cross Examination?
23. What is the Highest Civil court in the Texas court
17. What is a Deposition?
18. What is a Subpoena?
19. What is an Interrogatory?
20. What is Voir Dire?
21. What is an Opening Statement?
22. What is a Cross Examination?
23. What is the Highest Civil court in the Texas court system?
24. What is the Highest Criminal court in the Texas court system?
25. What was the holding in Griswold v. Connecticut?
26. What was the holding in Heart of Atlanta v. US?
27. What is the definition of Relevance in Evidence?
28. What is the definition of Hearsay?
29. What is Authentication?
30. What is the State’s Burden in a Criminal Trial?
31. Explain Probable Cause?
32. Explain the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution
33. What is a Search Warrant and how doe Police obtain one?
34. What is Miranda Warning?
35. What are the freedoms guaranteed by Sixth Amendment?
36. What is the jail time for a Class B Misdemeanor under Texas Law?
37. List 3 third degree felonies under Texas Law
? 38. Why is the Death Penalty legal in Texas?
39. Explain how Assault can be a Civil Tort and a Felony Crime in Texas?
40. What is the role of a Prosecutor under State Law.
41. Explain the Tort of Negligence?
42. What is the Statute of Frauds?
43. What are the elements of a Contract?
44. Does a Minor have capacity to enter a binding contract?
45. What is the definition of Community Property in Texas?
46. What is a Pre-Nuptial Agreement?
47. What is a Texas Limited Liability Company?
48. What is Substantive Due Process?
49. What is Procedural Due Process?
50. How can the State of Colorado legalize cannabis as a business when it is illegal under US Statute and the State of Texas?
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