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Questions

1. American courts are given the task of achieving justice for citizens. What are the primary ways in which they seek to accomplish this?

2. How does the distinction between corrective and distributive justice affect the criminal and civil law?

3. In what ways do various types of justice, such as social, retributive, restorative, and procedural, affect society's approach to resolving disputes?

4. What are the four characteristics all courts share? Explain why they are important.

5. Courts rely on formal rules of procedure to achieve their goals, but why are those rules important for the parties in both criminal and civil cases?

6. Discuss the procedures used in two of the earliest forms of dispute resolution: trial by battle and trial by ordeal.

7. Written case decisions issued by courts typically include facts, issue, holding, and rationale. Explain the purpose of each of these and why they are necessary to a court's decision.