1. ____ jurisprudence supports the idea that law can and should change to meet n

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1. ____ jurisprudence supports the idea that law can and should change to meet new developments in society.

a. Historical

b. Natural

c. Sociological

d. Positive law

e. legal realism

2. Which of the following statements best defines ethics?

a. ethics is a legal systm for evaluating who profits in a business tranasction.

b. ethics is merely a different term for the laws and regulations created by a government

c. ethics is an irrational method used specifically in examing the morality of lives.

d. ethics is a simplifed term given to the momentary decisions one makes regarding which answer will lead to the most personally successful solution

e. ethics is a formal system for deciding what is right and wrong and for justifing moral decisions

3. Which of the following statements is true of the role of judges in the US courts?

a. they determine the facts from confliscting evidence in a jury trial

b. they present evidence to a jury

c. they give no deference to the facts found by a jury

d. they apply the law to the facts of the case

e. they campaign for reelection

4. Which of the following statements is true of preemption?

a. when the federal government preempts laws in an area, state laws are given preference over the federal law in that area.

b. if a federal law preempts a subject, then any state law that attempts to regulate the same activity is unconstituional.

c. preeempting does not apply to federal statutes and rules of federal administrative agenceis.

d. the concept of preemption aries from the contract clause of the consitution

e. premeption grants the federal government the power to regulate foreign commerce.

5. Lawsuits being at the ____ level.

a. appellate court

b. trial court

c. supreme court

d. intermediate reviewing court

e. state supreme court

1.c) Sociological

2 e)ethics is a formal system for deciding what is right and wrong and for justifing moral decisions

3.b) they present evidence to a jury

4 a) when the federal government preempts laws in an area, state laws are given preference over the federal law in that area.

5.a)

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