A) It relies too heavily on religious texts for validation B) It is too expensive to implement in a modern state C) It was written in a language no longer widely understood D) It fails to account for the variety of laws and the rule of recognition
A) The Sovereign Command B) The Legal Maxim C) The Primary Directive D) The Rule of Recognition
A) Written and Unwritten rules B) Primary and Secondary rules C) Hard and Soft rules D) Major and Minor rules
A) To collect taxes for the state B) To decorate official legal documents C) To impose duties on individuals D) To elect government officials
A) To replace all primary rules over time B) To punish those who break primary rules C) To simplify the language of primary rules for the public D) To provide for the creation, alteration, and adjudication of primary rules
A) Rules of taxation and rules of war B) Rules of speech and rules of assembly C) Rules of change and rules of adjudication D) Rules of marriage and rules of property
A) The concept of legal precedent B) The idea of judicial impartiality C) The practice of trial by jury D) Austin's theory of law as a command
A) Primary and secondary rules B) Statutes and case law C) Sovereign and subjects D) Power and morality
A) The perspective of a sovereign creating a law B) A citizen's opinion on tax law C) The secret deliberations of a judge D) The attitude of those who accept the rules as standards of conduct
A) Interchangeable terms for justice B) Conceptually separate but often connected C) Completely unrelated concepts D) One and the same thing
A) Legal Realism B) Critical Legal Studies C) Natural Law Theory D) Legal Positivism
A) That it uses too much paper for legal documents B) That it always leads to unjust outcomes C) That it is a recent invention with no history D) That judges have discretion in hard cases due to 'open texture'
A) All laws must be published openly to the public B) Courtrooms should have open windows for air C) Judges should be open to bribes from either party D) Legal rules have a core of certainty and a penumbra of doubt
A) Rule of recognition and other secondary rules B) Body of diplomats and ambassadors C) Set of primary rules against violence D) System of languages for treaties
A) The lack of a centralized military B) The problem of overpopulation C) Uncertainty about what the rules are D) The absence of a written language
A) Inefficiency in resolving disputes about rules B) The lack of law schools C) The problem of courtroom acoustics D) The spelling of legal terms
A) A moral duty to be nice to others B) A feeling of being bound by a rule, from the internal point of view C) A financial debt owed to the government D) A physical force that compels action
A) Law necessarily involves coercion but is not defined by it alone B) Law is defined solely by its coercive power C) Law has no necessary connection to coercion D) Coercion is only found in immoral legal systems
A) To promote his own candidacy for judge B) To provide a descriptive analysis of how law functions C) To argue for a specific political ideology D) To prescribe a new universal legal code
A) Lon Fuller B) John Austin C) Aristotle D) Immanuel Kant
A) Joseph Raz B) Lon Fuller C) Ronald Dworkin D) John Rawls |