The Law Says What?

You may find that once you learn from this book, you will see how prevalent the law is in your own life.

If someone fell into a river and was eaten by a hungry alligator, you might have a moral duty to help them, but if you just sat there and watched, you would face zero legal repercussions.

What is the First Amendment? It protects a person’s freedom of expression, whether it be through speech, gestures, religion, or peaceful protest.

In order to undertake any such action, along with arrests, a warrant must be issued by a judge, aftersatisfactory evidence is provided to support a “probable cause”.

The Supreme Court argues that many explicitly stated rights in the Constitutionform other rights that aren’t mentioned.

The felony doctrine has been instrumental in prosecuting unjust killings that would otherwise have been much harder to deliver a verdict on, such as with the George Floyd case.

In order to use deadly force in self-defense, you must reasonably believe that you are facing an immediate threat of great bodily harm or death.

Adverse possession is supported by the “use it or lose it” philosophy– land is avery valuable asset, and it’s always better for someone to be using it, rather than noone.

Lawmakers have decided that generally speaking, employers as a whole are in a better position to compensate the victims than the guilty employees.

It’s important to remember that the Founding Fathers were colonists who were fleeing a tyrannical monarchy— they put a lot of thought into avoiding any system where any single individual could gain too much power.