PLA 3014 Final Test Questions & Answers 2024/2025
According to the text, Martin Luther King believed that people did not have to obey laws enacted by governments if these laws were in conflict with 'moral law' - ANSWERSTrue
According to the text, natural law philosophers argued that moral g...
According to the text, Martin Luther King believed that people did not have to obey laws enacted by
governments if these laws were in conflict with 'moral law' - ANSWERSTrue
According to the text, natural law philosophers argued that moral goodness is conceptually independent
of institutional views of goodness or evil: - ANSWERSTrue
According to the text, under Analytical positivism, the sovereign's will is law no matter what: -
ANSWERSFalse
Ethics is the study of morality: - ANSWERSTrue
According to the text, in our modern society, which of the following is expected to play the lesser role in
promoting ethical behavior: - ANSWERSlaw
According to the text, the American tort system is a reflection of thinking of which 'kind' of law -
ANSWERSutilitarian law?
natural law?
statutory law?
According to the text, the Utilitarian influence can be found in legislative enactments such as which of
the following: - ANSWERSA (lemon law) &
B (consumer protection legislation) only
Which of the following schools of law thought that law should focus on providing people with security
and equality of opportunity: - ANSWERSUtilitarian law
, Which of the following schools of law concentrated on the social usefulness of legislation rather than on
metaphysical notions of goodness and justice: - ANSWERSutilitarian law
In the case of Gregg v Georgia, the federal Supreme Court justices debated which of the following: -
ANSWERSthe ethics and legality of capital punishment
Conflict of laws rules in tort cases vary from state to state: - ANSWERSTrue
Because of the doctrine of lex loci delicti commissi, only a point of law necessarily decided in a reported
judicial opinion is binding on other courts as precedent: - ANSWERSFalse
A court construing an ambiguous criminal statute will generally apply the interpretation that is least
favorable to the government: - ANSWERSFalse
An unpublished opinion has no precedential value: - ANSWERSTrue
The supremacy clause restricts federal powers and does not apply to the legislative function: -
ANSWERSFalse
Ex Post Facto laws are legislative act that impose punishments on persons who have not had the benefit
of a court trial: - ANSWERSFalse
Those points of law decided by a court to resolve a legal controversy constitute dictum: - ANSWERSFalse
The civil equivalent to the criminal constitutional provision known as double jeopardy, whereby one
cannot be tried twice for the same alleged wrong, is known as which of the following: - ANSWERSres
judicata
A final judgment or decree rendered on the merits, without fraud or collusion, by a court of competent
jurisdiction, is conclusive of rights, questions and facts in issue as to the parties and their privies and is a
complete bar to any subsequent action on the same cause of action between the parties or those in
privity with them. This statement explains which of the following: - ANSWERSres judicata?
the full faith and credit clause?
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