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Which of the following is true regarding the Second Amendment?

Under a typical statue prohibiting threats, a defendant who threatens to place a bomb in a public building may be convicted even if he or she does not actually place a bomb in the building.

Most crimes characterized as “crimes against the public” or public welfare crimes are malum prohibitum and not malum in se.

I am a human.

One of the purposes of criminal law is to discourage the same individual and others from committing crimes.  This is known as ______________, and it may be general or specific.

The first theft crime created as part of the common law was _____________.  Modern consolidated theft statutes have eliminated distinctions between this offense, embezzlement, and false pretenses.

Modern burglary statutes have eliminated the common law requirement that the structure be a dwellling.

In common-law terms, a person who intended an act and its consequences acted with:

Actus reas is best defined as

The activity lay-persons would likely characterize as blackmail most closely matches the actus reus of the offense of: