WorksheetsLegal morals quiz
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 3mins
According to the text, what is the main assertion of positivism regarding the relationship between law and morals?
Laws and morals should be mixed to guide society.
Laws and morals should be kept separate.
Laws should be based solely on moral values.
Morals are irrelevant to the creation of laws.
What does Jeremy Bentham criticize about natural law theory?
It is 'nonsense upon stilts.'
It is the only way to enforce morality.
It is based on rational decision-making.
It supports the suppression of vice.
Which theorist referred to natural law as a 'dictate of right reason'?
Lon Fuller
Lord Devlin
St Thomas Aquinas
Viscount Simonds
According to H.L.A. Hart, when should laws that enforce morals cease?
When they prevent harm to others.
When they cause pain to the individual concerned.
When they are not justifiable in the interests of society.
When they support private morality.
What does the Wolfenden Report of 1978 state about the role of law in moral issues?
Law should equate the sphere of crime with that of sin.
Law should not intervene where immorality causes harm.
Law should act to equate the sphere of crime with that of sin.
Law should not concern itself with private morality and immorality.
