What is the difference between law and ethics?

What is rule of law? How does rule of law impact us?

How is power divided and balanced between the people and the government? Between the states and the federal government? Between the branches of government?

How does the Bill of Rights protect freedoms?

How have court cases impacted the rights of students in public school?

How have rights expanded since the creation of the Constitution?

What is the purpose of the courts? How are the courts organized?

What is criminal law? What is civil law? What are the key differences between them?

What is crime? What are the elements of a crime?

How do individual and societal factors contribute to the causes of crime?

What classes of offenses/crime are there? How can an individual be charged with a crime?

Who are some of the people involved in a criminal court case? What roles do they play? What are the steps in a criminal trial?

What rights do you have during the criminal process? How have court decisions impacted these rights?

What happens when a juvenile commits a crime? How have the courts changed the way they deal with juvenile crime?