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