Goverment/Law

Question 1

Purpose of Laws

Answer 1

-Passed to describe society’s accepted and unaccepted behaviors
-Used to communicate and educate for control through the use of potential punishment

Question 2

Legislative Branch

Answer 2

-Enacts laws
-Determines how to raise and spend revenues
-Creates statutes (positive laws)

Question 3

What are laws before they are signed by the president?

Answer 3

Statutory law is created by passing bills

Question 3

Publishing of Statutory Law 3 Ways

Answer 3

1. Slip and Session Laws
   -1st published notice of new law
   -Collected in volumes called Federal Session Laws (by date)
2. Statutory Codes
   -Collection of statutes (by matter or title)
   -Codification
3. Federal Statutory Codes
   -Public as United States Code (U.S.C.)
   -Private as United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.) and United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)

Question 3

Executive Branch

Answer 3

-Enforces and interprets laws
-Administers government programs through administrative agencies

Question 4

Two types of Administrative laws

Answer 4

1. Regulations
2. Decisions

Question 5

Two types of Federal Administrative Agencies

Answer 5

1. Executive Federal Agencies
2. Independent Federal Agencies

Question 6

Executive Federal Agencies

Answer 6

Departments in the President’s Cabinet

Question 7

Independent Federal Agencies

Answer 7

-NOT controlled by any other departments or branches of government
-President appoints leaders
(Ex. FBI)

Question 8

Publishing of Administrative Law

Answer 8

1. Administrative Registers
   -by date
   -published daily
   -appear in the Federal Register
2. Amindstaive Codes
   -by subject
   -published yearly
   -appear in the Code of Federal Regulations

Question 9

Judicial Branch

Answer 9

-Interprets laws
-Resolves legal disputes by cases
-COMMON law (judge-made) found in court decisions and renders OPINIONS

Question 10

Publishing OPINIONS

Answer 10

1. Slip Opinions
2. Advance Sheets
3. Case Reporters
4. Case Digests

Question 11

United States Code (USC)

Answer 11

Collection of laws/statutes
-All statutory laws published periodically
-Every year a supplement to the latest edition is published
-Organized by topics, into titles (1-50), into sections
-No state legislature included

Question 12

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

Answer 12

Collection of regulations issued by agencies
-how to comply with it
-published annually
-divided into 50 titles by subject, into sections

Question 13

Federal Register (FR)

Answer 13

Daily new bulletin for regulations and other government transactions
-Daily update of CFR
-Interested parties can respond before the final regulation is published