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