the Constitution

An arrest warrant is a document issued by a judge or magistrate that authorizes the police to take someone accused of a crime into custody.

An article is a legal rule that can be set out under a statute, a code, or a paragraph in a legal document. Articles usually refer to matters that have been agreed upon by the supervising authority.

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Article III refers to Article III of the Constitution, the section of the Constitution that authorizes a federal court system.

• constitutional law

As noted in the Supreme Court of New Mexico case Morris v. Brandenburg, assisted suicide is the act of actively aiding other people in the taking of their own lives. Physician-assisted suicide, a subset of assisted suicide, involves the assistance of a physician. 

An association is an unincorporated organization of people banded together for a specific purpose.

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An author is a person who creates, comes up with, or gives existence to something. Most people think of an author as an individual who wrote a paper, book, poem, letter, or any kind of literary work. If the work was made for hire, the employer or commissioning party is considered the author of the work.

• copyright law
• intellectual property

The "automobile exception" is an exception to the general requirement of a warrant for searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment.

A “balancing test” is defined as a subjective test with which a court weighs competing interests.

Ballots are devices (originally balls) used to cast votes in elections. Today, the word “ballot” has several senses and may alternatively be used to refer to: