Constitutional law and the justice system
Society & big questions · C2 · 16 words
About this vocabulary deck
Sixteen C2 words for how law limits power and protects rights, from habeas corpus and judicial review to precedent, repeal and impunity.
- Level
- C2
- Topic
- Society & big questions
- Theme
- The world today
- Words
- 16 words with meanings and examples
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First words in the deck
- habeas corpus — the legal right of an arrested person to be brought before a court, which decides whether their detention is lawful
- judicial review — a process in which judges examine whether a decision by a public body was lawful
- separation of powers — the principle that the law-making, governing and judicial branches of the state should be independent of each other