Law Short Answer And Essay

Question 1

Law

Answer 1

Study of ordinances designed to help citizens coexist peacefully

Question 2

Legal positivism

Answer 2

Belief that Laws are rules created by human authorities and that there is no connection between law and morality

Question 3

Proletariat law

Answer 3

A system of laws shaped by communist party officials that are intended to promote the working class over the bourgeoisie

Question 4

Critical legal studies

Answer 4

The practice of deconstructing laws in order to discover their subjective meaning and biased intent

Question 5

Self law

Answer 5

Actions are lawful only if honorable to the god within and unlawful if imposed by an outside authority

Question 6

Shariah law

Answer 6

Derived from the Quran and sunnah. Is the moral and legal code that governs the lives of Muslims

Question 7

Natural law

Answer 7

Belief that morality can be seen in the natural order of creating and accessed through human reasons/ laws are rules based upon an internal code of morality that all people possess.

Question 8

If what the nazis did was legal, then on what basis were nazis convicted for their crime sin the Nuremberg trials

Answer 8

• they were able to judge because of the standard of right and wrong that we naturally have from general revelation
• we have an internal code of morality
• it was legal under German law but violated clear moral laws