LEGL 225 Towson TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
1) How many amendments are there? - ANSWER 27 admendments
1) What are the sources of law? - ANSWER **
1. Statutory Law
2. Common Law
3. Administrative Law
4. Constitutional Law
1) What are the 3 branches of government? - ANSWER Legislative, Executive, Judicial
1) Where did the US legal system come from? - ANSWER English / CHECK BOOK FOR OTHER
ANSWER
1) Civil Law - ANSWER Preponderance of Evidence / Pay In $ for crimes or issue
1) Criminal Law - ANSWER Beyond a reasonable doubt / Jail time
1) 3 Legal Philosophies - ANSWER Legal Realism- Who enforces the law counts more than
, what is in writing
Legal Positivism - Law is what the sovereign says
Natural Law-An unjust law is no law at all
2) Ethics - ANSWER How people should behave
2) Ethics Decision - ANSWER any choice about how a person should behave that is based on a
sense of right and wrong
2) Theories of ethics - ANSWER Utilitarian (John Stuart Mill)- Correct decision maximizes
profit minimizes pain.
Deontological(Immanuel Kant)- act is acceptable if it's ethical for everyone to do
Raulsian Justice(John Rauls)- Hard work matters, luck plays a roll, your circumstance matters
Front Page Test- A decision is ethical if it can appear on the front page of the news paper
Moral Universalism/ Relativism (Dependent on culture) - Some acts are always right or always
wrong
ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
1) How many amendments are there? - ANSWER 27 admendments
1) What are the sources of law? - ANSWER **
1. Statutory Law
2. Common Law
3. Administrative Law
4. Constitutional Law
1) What are the 3 branches of government? - ANSWER Legislative, Executive, Judicial
1) Where did the US legal system come from? - ANSWER English / CHECK BOOK FOR OTHER
ANSWER
1) Civil Law - ANSWER Preponderance of Evidence / Pay In $ for crimes or issue
1) Criminal Law - ANSWER Beyond a reasonable doubt / Jail time
1) 3 Legal Philosophies - ANSWER Legal Realism- Who enforces the law counts more than
, what is in writing
Legal Positivism - Law is what the sovereign says
Natural Law-An unjust law is no law at all
2) Ethics - ANSWER How people should behave
2) Ethics Decision - ANSWER any choice about how a person should behave that is based on a
sense of right and wrong
2) Theories of ethics - ANSWER Utilitarian (John Stuart Mill)- Correct decision maximizes
profit minimizes pain.
Deontological(Immanuel Kant)- act is acceptable if it's ethical for everyone to do
Raulsian Justice(John Rauls)- Hard work matters, luck plays a roll, your circumstance matters
Front Page Test- A decision is ethical if it can appear on the front page of the news paper
Moral Universalism/ Relativism (Dependent on culture) - Some acts are always right or always
wrong
