Legal glossary category
Constitutional Law
Browse 7 glossary entries in the Constitutional Law category, with short plain-English descriptions and direct links to the full term pages.
court
A court acts like the principal on a permission slip; it decides if your request is valid or not.
Open term →governmental
A school's four-year pass lets you leave class without getting in trouble.
Open term →governmental entity
A hall pass lets a student go down the hallway, but it does not allow breaking classroom rules.
Open term →governor
A governor is like a class president who can approve a class rule and let a detention pass, but the principal (the federal government) sets the ove...
Open term →immunities
A hall pass lets one student walk the hallway when everyone else would get detention.
Open term →united states
It's like having a giant permission slip signed by 50 states, all agreeing to follow one main rulebook (the Constitution).
Open term →warrant
A warrant is like getting permission from your parents (the judge) before you can borrow a friend's bike (the action).
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