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Law and Medical Offices
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- 1What is Law? Criminal Law Civil LawLaw - is the set of rules that govern our behavior. Law affects everyone.
Criminal law - prohibits and punishes certain conduct for the benefit of society
Civil law - concerns the private rights and duties of individuals who live within a society. - 2Sources of Law Governments #1Governments create laws. In the U.S., governments are constitutional, which means a constitution adopted by the people creates a government and gives that government the power to adopt laws governing the people
- 3Sources of Law Governments #2Federal Government - created by the U.S. Constitution
State Government - created by state constitution
Local Government - created by states under the authority of state constitutions.
All three levels of government - federal state, and local - make laws. The U.S. government has 3 branches - legislative, executive, and judicial. Each branch makes laws. - 4—
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- FlashCards sobre Law and Medical Offices, criado por deirdre724 em 19-08-2015.
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