BLAW EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Morals should serve as a guide for those in a society
empowered to create, interpret, and enforce the laws,
including:
Answer:
The executive branch, the legislature, the courts, the administrative agencies.
Question:
2. The theory of utilitarianism says that the morality of an
action is determined by its ultimate effects. The more
good that results, the more___ the behavior
Answer:
ethical
Question:
3. Weber's dyad, a two-level system of morality, involves the
ethic of ultimate ends for individuals and the ethic of ___
for national leaders
Answer:
responsibility
Question:
4. The acronym R2P means
Answer:
Responsibility to Protect
Question:
5. Traditionally the primary role of corporation was to make
money for its
Answer:
shareholders
Question:
6. To explain his theory that society is cooperative, rather
than competitive, Kropotkin introduces two human
forces: energy and ______.
Answer:
justice
, Question:
7. Ideally, the primary objectives of law should be
equally_____ at all times.
Answer:
balanced
Question:
8. In Law and History, author Anthony Chase explains that
the legal system is shaped by
Answer:
several dualities
Question:
9. the fundamental law of a nation is the
Answer:
constitution
Question:
10. The first constitution of the United States was known as
the
Answer:
articles of confederation
Question:
11. The american founders gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to
_____ the articles of confederation
Answer:
revise
Question:
12. Separation of powers is a risk of which presidential
power?
Answer:
president
Question:
13. The party initiating a lawsuit is called a____
Answer:
Plaintiff
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Morals should serve as a guide for those in a society
empowered to create, interpret, and enforce the laws,
including:
Answer:
The executive branch, the legislature, the courts, the administrative agencies.
Question:
2. The theory of utilitarianism says that the morality of an
action is determined by its ultimate effects. The more
good that results, the more___ the behavior
Answer:
ethical
Question:
3. Weber's dyad, a two-level system of morality, involves the
ethic of ultimate ends for individuals and the ethic of ___
for national leaders
Answer:
responsibility
Question:
4. The acronym R2P means
Answer:
Responsibility to Protect
Question:
5. Traditionally the primary role of corporation was to make
money for its
Answer:
shareholders
Question:
6. To explain his theory that society is cooperative, rather
than competitive, Kropotkin introduces two human
forces: energy and ______.
Answer:
justice
, Question:
7. Ideally, the primary objectives of law should be
equally_____ at all times.
Answer:
balanced
Question:
8. In Law and History, author Anthony Chase explains that
the legal system is shaped by
Answer:
several dualities
Question:
9. the fundamental law of a nation is the
Answer:
constitution
Question:
10. The first constitution of the United States was known as
the
Answer:
articles of confederation
Question:
11. The american founders gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to
_____ the articles of confederation
Answer:
revise
Question:
12. Separation of powers is a risk of which presidential
power?
Answer:
president
Question:
13. The party initiating a lawsuit is called a____
Answer:
Plaintiff
