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3. What is the importance of the statutes as a source of state law?

4. What are some other sources of law?

5. Describe the work of the justice of the peace.

6. What is the jurisdiction of the county courts?

7. What is the chief function of the state supreme court?

8. Name some special state courts.

9. What is the function of the district attorney?

10. What is the relation of state to Federal courts?

11. Discuss the chief powers of state courts.

12. What is the scope of the civil jurisdiction of the state courts?

13. Describe a civil trial.

14. What are the two types of crimes?

15. Outline the steps in a criminal trial.

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Beard, _American Government and Politics_, chapter xxvi.

2. Guitteau, _Government and Politics in the United States_, chapter xi.

3. Munro, _The Government of the United States_, chapter x.x.xiv.

4. Reed, _Form and Function of American Government_, chapter xiii.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Define common law. (Guitteau, page 115.)

2. What is the relation of the old Privy Council to the origin of English common law? (Guitteau, page 116.)

3. What is a tort? (Beard, pages 558-559.)

4. What is the relation of the state judiciary to the other departments of state government? (Reed, page 160.)

5. To what extent do the Federal courts interfere with the decisions of the state courts? (Munro, page 492.)

6. By what three methods may judges be chosen? (Beard, page 550.)