BLAW 220 EXAM 1
-natural law
-legal positivism
-historical school
-legal realism - correct answer ✔✔4 schools of thought
One of the oldest and most significant schools of legal thought. Those who believe in natural law hold
that there is a universal law applicable to all human beings and that this law is of a higher order than
positive, or national, law.
- Aristotle's notion that people have natural rights
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C. historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔A. natural Law
A school of legal thought centered on the assumption that there is no law higher than the laws created
by the government. Laws must be obeyed, even if they are unjust, to prevent anarchy.
- Antithetical to Aristotle, rights only exist because of laws
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C. historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔B. legal positivism
, A school of legal thought that stresses the evolutionary nature of law and looks to doctrines that have
withstood the passage of time for guidance in shaping present laws.
- Past laws shape present laws
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C. historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔C. historical school
A school of legal thought that generally advocates a less abstract and more realistic approach to the law.
This approach takes into account customary practices and the social and economic circumstances in
which transactions take place.
- Laws cannot be total uniform, that human biases always exist
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C.historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔D. legal realism
- constitutional law
- statutory law
- administrative law
- case law and common law doctrines - correct answer ✔✔sources of American Law
The law as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and the various state constitutions. The U.S. Constitution is
the supreme law of the land. State constitutions are supreme within state borders to the extent that
they do not violate the U.S. Constitution or a federal law.
-natural law
-legal positivism
-historical school
-legal realism - correct answer ✔✔4 schools of thought
One of the oldest and most significant schools of legal thought. Those who believe in natural law hold
that there is a universal law applicable to all human beings and that this law is of a higher order than
positive, or national, law.
- Aristotle's notion that people have natural rights
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C. historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔A. natural Law
A school of legal thought centered on the assumption that there is no law higher than the laws created
by the government. Laws must be obeyed, even if they are unjust, to prevent anarchy.
- Antithetical to Aristotle, rights only exist because of laws
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C. historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔B. legal positivism
, A school of legal thought that stresses the evolutionary nature of law and looks to doctrines that have
withstood the passage of time for guidance in shaping present laws.
- Past laws shape present laws
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C. historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔C. historical school
A school of legal thought that generally advocates a less abstract and more realistic approach to the law.
This approach takes into account customary practices and the social and economic circumstances in
which transactions take place.
- Laws cannot be total uniform, that human biases always exist
A. natural Law
B. legal positivism
C.historical school
D. legal realism - correct answer ✔✔D. legal realism
- constitutional law
- statutory law
- administrative law
- case law and common law doctrines - correct answer ✔✔sources of American Law
The law as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and the various state constitutions. The U.S. Constitution is
the supreme law of the land. State constitutions are supreme within state borders to the extent that
they do not violate the U.S. Constitution or a federal law.
