LEGL 225 TOWSON TEST 1 EXAM
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
1) How many amendments are there? - ANS 27 admendments
1) What are the sources of law? - ANS **
1. Statutory Law
2. Common Law
3. Administrative Law
4. Constitutional Law
1) What are the 3 branches of government? - ANS Legislative, Executive, Judicial
1) Where did the US legal system come from? - ANS English / CHECK BOOK FOR OTHER
ANSWER
1) Civil Law - ANS Preponderance of Evidence / Pay In $ for crimes or issue
1) Criminal Law - ANS Beyond a reasonable doubt / Jail time
1) 3 Legal Philosophies - ANS Legal Realism- Who enforces the law counts more than what is
in writing
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, Legal Positivism - Law is what the sovereign says
Natural Law-An unjust law is no law at all
2) Ethics - ANS How people should behave
2) Ethics Decision - ANS any choice about how a person should behave that is based on a
sense of right and wrong
2) Theories of ethics - ANS 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
2) Traps in ethics - ANS Money, Power, Rationalize why to do things, following orders, Blind
eye
3) What year was the United Nations made? - ANS 1945
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
1) How many amendments are there? - ANS 27 admendments
1) What are the sources of law? - ANS **
1. Statutory Law
2. Common Law
3. Administrative Law
4. Constitutional Law
1) What are the 3 branches of government? - ANS Legislative, Executive, Judicial
1) Where did the US legal system come from? - ANS English / CHECK BOOK FOR OTHER
ANSWER
1) Civil Law - ANS Preponderance of Evidence / Pay In $ for crimes or issue
1) Criminal Law - ANS Beyond a reasonable doubt / Jail time
1) 3 Legal Philosophies - ANS Legal Realism- Who enforces the law counts more than what is
in writing
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
, Legal Positivism - Law is what the sovereign says
Natural Law-An unjust law is no law at all
2) Ethics - ANS How people should behave
2) Ethics Decision - ANS any choice about how a person should behave that is based on a
sense of right and wrong
2) Theories of ethics - ANS 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
2) Traps in ethics - ANS Money, Power, Rationalize why to do things, following orders, Blind
eye
3) What year was the United Nations made? - ANS 1945
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
