LAW TEST PT2

What area of law regulates activities between a state and its citizens?

Public Law

What is the set of laws called that contains all the basic rules about how a country operates?

Constitutional Law

What does Administrative Law govern?

Relations between individuals and government agencies.

What type of law prohibits and punishes behavior that injures people, property, or society?

Criminal Law

What is the area of law that regulates disputes between individuals, businesses, or organizations?

Private Law or Civil Law

What type of law covers civil wrongs and damages independent of a contractual relationship?

Tort Law

What governs agreements between people or companies to purchase or provide goods or services?

Contract Law

Which area of law governs relations among family members?

Family Law

What type of law governs collective bargaining and industrial relations?

Labour Law

What regulates what happens to a person's property after their death?

Estate/Property Law

What type of law is based on oral traditions among Aboriginal societies?

Aboriginal Law

What is the theory that all humans are derived from unchangeable principles regulating the natural world?

Natural Law Theory

What method did Socrates use to arrive at the meaning of terms in relation to the 'good life'?

Dialectic Process

What theory suggests that humans are political creatures and cannot be 'good' only through education?

Rationalism

Who identified four types of law and is known for the work 'Summa Theologica'?

St. Thomas Aquinas

What refers to a law that humans have made to achieve a properly functioning society?

Human Positive Law

According to Thomas Hobbes, what is the purpose of law proposed in 'Leviathan'?

To maintain social order and prevent chaos.

What did John Locke believe about violating natural rights?

People are justified to rebel against the government.

What concept is proposed by Jeremy Bentham and John Austin regarding the evaluation of laws?

Utility to society as a whole.

What philosopher introduced the concepts of general will and popular sovereignty?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Who was the student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle?

Plato.