1. Rules: All rules mandatory charge, allows or prohibits certain conduct or behavior of the person within a social group to which it belongs.
2. Law: Compulsory Social Rule, permanently established by public authority and sanctioned by the force.
3. Constitution: Basic Law of the organization and functioning of the state and civil liberties.
4. Decree-Law: They are norms that regulate matters within a law and are issued by a government de facto.
5. Decree with force of law, resolutions are issued in matters pertaining to laws which can be ordered by the President, with the authorization of Congress for legislation enabling law.
6. Rule of Law: Condition of the State in which the three branches of government operate in an autonomous and permanent. Where both rulers and ruled are subject to the constitution and laws of the country.
7. Nationality: Legal relationship between a person and the rule that contractual rights and obligations.
8. Citizenship: A condition or status enjoyed by certain people (nationals) and under which they can exercise political rights such as the payment, eligible for elective office or non-elective public to participate in political parties.
9. Political parties, voluntary association, with legal personality, formed by citizens who share a common doctrine and government policy which aims to assist the functioning of constitutional democracy and legitimate exercise an influence on the conduct of the State, to achieve the common good serve the public.
10. Person: He's a unique and unrepeatable but time is a social being needs and must share with others. Our civil code distinguishes between natural person and legal person.
11. Suffrage: It is a manifestation of political rights, through which it exercises the right to democratically elect authorities.
12. Plebiscite: Enquiry made by the government to the public through the popular vote to approve or reject a particular subject.
13. Nation: A group of people who are united by common material and spiritual ties such as the same culture, traditions, that they form a common history.
14. Status: fixed human grouping in a given area where there is a social order oriented legal and political common good established and maintained by an authority with adequate powers of coercion.
15. Sovereignty: The State Department has to make decisions and implement them within the territory, as well as to interact on a legal footing with other states.
16. Government: Joint public tribunals or authorities responsible for directing and guiding State action for the common good through the exercise of sovereignty.
17. Political systems: Forms and characteristics that the government, ie the exercise of power.
18. State Powers: The distribution of state power in various organs such as executive, legislative, judicial.
19. Human Rights: There are inherent attributes of human beings, so they must be secured and respected by the political authorities (civil, political, economic, social, cultural). 20.Reforma
Criminal Procedure: The new system of criminal justice is established from 2000 in our country in order to achieve justice more quickly, effectively and transparently. 21.Ministerio
Public or Attorney: It is an autonomous body, organized in 18 regional prosecutors' offices which are headed by a regional tax and are also composed of deputy prosecutors fiscal assistant, legal advisers and other professionals such as psychologists, social workers, administrative and auxiliares.Su function is the investigation of crimes, to bring the accused to the courts if appropriate and provide protection for victims and witnesses.
22.Fiscal of Public Prosecutions: The Attorney (a) that defends the interests of society (victim), for which investigates crimes and public trial the prosecution contends. 23.La
victim: A person who suffers the consequences of crime. If it is prevented from exercising their rights is considered a victim's spouse, children, parents, partner, brothers. Within the right of every victim are: being treated, treated with dignity, to report the crime, be informed, to receive protection, reparation claim. 24.The
Charged: A person suspected of committing a crime, against which conducts research. This is always innocent until a court says otherwise. 25.The
Criminal Public Defender: The lawyer (a) defending the accused both during the investigation, as in the public trial.
26.Audiencia: A public meeting in court, where the victim, the defendant, prosecutor, criminal defense, can raise their requests. Among the types of audiences are those made before a court of guarantee or trial hearing. 27.Acuerdos
reparation: They are an alternative outlet to trial where the accused with the victim agrees to give or do something in their favor to repair the damage. These agreements are made in a hearing before the supervising judge. You can only reach these agreements when it comes to crimes such as theft, burglary, minor injuries, crimes committed by negligence, and if the accused does not present a criminal record for similar offenses. Oral 28.Juicio
Criminal: It's an audience that is part of a new stage of criminal proceedings in which the defense counsel, the accused, the prosecutor, the victim and witnesses to attend before the trial court in consisting criminal three judges who will have the task of sentencing convicting or acquitting the accused. 29.Medidas
protection: These are all actions that determines the prosecutor to continue with the objective of protecting the physical and psychological integrity of the victim who is living a high risk within them may be mentioned that tie to prevent visual identification of the victim in the process of investigation or prohibiting the defendant to approach the victim or his family. 30.Unidades
regional care for victims and witnesses are professional teams consisting of lawyers, psychologists, social workers operating in each regional prosecutor assist prosecutors in relation to care and protection of victims.
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