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Crash Course Government and Politics
Legal System Basics: Crash Course Government #18
Season 1
Episode 18
It's pretty easy to forget that the courts, and the laws that come out of them, affect our lives on a daily basis. But how exactly these decisions are made and where each law's jurisdiction starts and ends can get pretty complicated.
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