Chapter1 t or f

• Every society in recorded history has had some system of law.

• True

• Common law is primarily made by legislatures.

• False

• The U.S. Constitution guarantees many basic rights to citizens.

• True

• The executive branch interprets laws.

• False

• Checks and balances prevent any branch of government from becoming too powerful.

• True

• Statutes are proposals for new laws that never become binding.

• False

• Precedent is only binding on lower courts.

• True

• Administrative agencies often create regulations that have the force of law.

• True

• Criminal law is concerned only with private disputes.

• False

• Civil law deals with rights and duties between individuals.

• True

• Law and morality are always the same thing.

• False

• Legal positivism leaves no room for questions of morality.

• True

• According to natural law, unjust laws do not need to be obeyed.

• True

• Legal realism focuses on how law is enforced in practice.

• True