GED Test with Questions Solved 100% Correct
Types of rights (remember this is a highly disputed issue, though) - ✔✔positive
(requires a positive action, like giving a charitable donation) and negative rights
(requires refraining from doing sth that will harm one, like not killing something)
Which moral theory is rights-based theory connected to? - ✔✔Kantianism
are Rights-based theories cons. or non-cons.? - ✔✔non-consequentialist
Contractarianism - ✔✔the principles of R/W are those which everyone in society
would agree upon in forming a social contract. principles determined by a hypothetical
contract
Rawl's maximin principle - ✔✔justice requires maximizing the benefits going to
society's most disadvantaged group
EARLY HISTORY OF LAW - ✔✔
Hammurabi's code - ✔✔King ruling Babylonia created earliest recorded "code" of 300
laws to be interpreted by citizens;
How they based/justified punishments - ✔✔"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Definition of a "code" - ✔✔A written collection of a country's laws arranged so it can
be used and understood
, Moses and Mosaic Law - ✔✔Centuries aft code of Hammurabi, similar laws with
severe punishments for the Hebrew people given by Moses
Roman Law - ✔✔A legal system that began in early Rome (1st - 5th cent.); Justinian I
(emperor in the 5th century) created code that remained in France til 1800s
Who created a code from Roman Law? Is it still used? If yes, give an example of where it
is still used. - ✔✔Napoleon created a code from Roman + Justinian laws that is still
being used in Quebec civil courts today
RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF CANADIANS - ✔✔ping
Fundamental freedoms - ✔✔basic political liberties required in a democracy
Infringement - ✔✔the action of breaking the terms of a law, agreement, etc.; a
violation
Appeal - ✔✔applying to a higher curt for a reversal of the decision of a lower court
Ex. of historically influential Revolutions and Declarations? - ✔✔1775 American
Revolution (power to the people); 1776 Declaration of Independence; 1789 French
Revolution (rising up against monarchy rulers for independence)
When was slavery abolished? What did it do? - ✔✔1860s; theoretically, all races had
freedom
When was the UN created + what did they do for universal R and F and when? -
✔✔Formed in 1945; adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Dec 10 1948,
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