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According to the force theory, what is the primary reason for the emergence of the state?
The rise of money and development of crafts
The emergence of social classes and internal contradictions
One tribe conquering another
Climate change
The making of agreements among people
Under the social contract theory, what is the core idea about how the state arises?
The state arises from private property and class formation
The state is a tool created by people to live together through a mutual agreement
The state originates from divine will
The state results from global climatic changes
The state has always existed simultaneously with humankind
Which set of scholars explained the origin of the state and law through the social contract theory?
Grotius, Hobbes, Rousseau, Radishchev
Thomas Aquinas, Maritain
Gumplowicz, Dühring, Kautsky
Marx, Engels, Lenin
Aristotle, Filmer
By what distinguishing feature does the state differ from any other political organization in society?
International organizations cooperate among themselves
Ownership of the principal means of production and tools
Having a constitutional act
Monopoly over outer space exploration
Authority to issue universally binding normative legal acts
The supremacy of state power within the country and independence beyond its territory is called what?
Legal personhood
State sovereignty
Legal capacity
Capacity to act
Law‑making activity
A legal custom is best defined as what?
Any traditions and customs that have survived to the present
Processes and customs expressed as punishments
Rigidly defined practices and customs that are supported and guaranteed by the state
When did the earliest state structures appear?
About a million years ago
About forty thousand years ago
About five thousand years ago
About one thousand years ago
About three thousand years ago
Which norms were used in primitive communal society?
Legal norms
Political norms
Tribal customs (mono‑norms)
Technical norms
Religious norms
Which are the main attributes of the state?
National currency, army, police
Territory, population, customs
State sovereignty, adoption of general rules, a special apparatus and control system
Capital city, flag (banner), coat of arms, anthem
A wide range of parties, prisons, banks, and mandatory social organizations
Aristotle, Filmer, and Mikhailovsky are associated most closely with which theory of the origin of the state?
Class theory
Theological theory
Patriarchal theory
Organic theory
Social contract theory
What is the key hallmark of the Eastern type of states?
State and society own land collectively
Private ownership of land predominates
The basis of authority is personal property
There is no powerful official apparatus
Cities arose first and then states
Which group of scholars proposed explaining the origin of the state by the class (materialist) theory?
Machiavelli, Hamilton
Marx, Engels, Lenin
Mikhailovsky, Bakunin
Aristotle, Filmer
Thomas Aquinas, Maritain
Which features characterize relations in primitive communal society?
Prevalence of taboos
Close linkage of rights and duties
Absence of an external specialized structure ensuring norm compliance
Regulation primarily by tribal customs
All of the above
Which theory was advanced by K. Marx, F. Engels, and V. I. Lenin?
Theological
Patriarchal
Social contract
Class (materialist)
Psychological
What are the main reasons for the emergence of the state?
Political and cultural
Ideological and religious
Customary and traditional
Legal, rights‑based, and democratic
Economic and social
In early class societies, which items formed the normative complex based on religious norms?
Mono‑norms
Edicts and decrees
Laws
Resolutions
Precedents
Who are the principal founders of the contract theory of the origin of the state?
Pokrovsky, Aristotle, Filmer
Hobbes, Spinoza, Rousseau
Gumplowicz, Kautsky, Dühring
Engels, Marx
Petrazhitsky, Hugo
Who are the principal founders of the force theory of the origin of the state?
Pokrovsky, Filmer
Epicurus, Spinoza, Rousseau
Gumplowicz, Kautsky, Dühring
Engels, Marx
Petrazhitsky, Hugo
Who are the principal founders of the patriarchal theory of the origin of the state?
Pokrovsky, Aristotle, Filmer
Hobbes, Spinoza, Rousseau
Gumplowicz, Kautsky, Dühring
Engels, Marx
Petrazhitsky, Hugo
Identify the theory that explains the origin of the state as the result of God's will.
Irrigation
Materialist
Theological
Contract
Patriarchal
Name the author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
F. Engels
K. Marx
V. I. Lenin
Hugo Grotius
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who advocated the social contract theory concerning the origin of the state and law?
Confucius
Aurelius Augustine
Thomas Aquinas
Hugo Grotius
B. Fogel
Mononorms regulated social relations in which type of society?
Slave-owning society
Feudal society
Primitive communal society
Bourgeois society
Modern democratic society
What is the principal factor determining the formation type of the state?
Level of culture, religion, and humanism
Climatic and geographical conditions
National characteristics
Degree of personal freedom
Type of production relations
In the Marxist framework, what is the basis (bazis)?
A set of political and legal relations
The state’s economic structure
Unity of people
The political form of the organization
Organization of state power
In the Marxist framework, what is the superstructure (qondyrym)?
A set of political and legal relations
The state’s economic structure
Unity of people
The political form of the organization
Organization of state power
Which state type belongs to the civilizational perspective?
Ancient Eastern
Feudal
Bourgeois
Slave-owning
Capitalist
Which thinkers held a civilizational view regarding state typology? Select all that apply.
F. Engels
K. Marx
V. I. Lenin
A. Toynbee
T. Pei
According to the formational viewpoint, identify the types of the state. Select all that apply.
Ancient Eastern
Western European
Primitive
Feudal
Capitalist
Within the civilizational approach, what are considered the main factors of the state? Select all that apply.
Level of development of production relations
Degree of personal freedom
Class contradictions and class struggle
Spiritual characteristics
Regulatory characteristics
The Asiatic mode of production belongs to which typology of the state?
Formational
Civilizational
Hypothetical
Real
According to civilizational characteristics, states are classified as:
Eastern and Western
Slave-owning, feudal, and bourgeois
Democratic and anti-democratic
Ancient and modern
Nomadic and sedentary
Which factor most strongly influences the essence of modern states?
Religious and national
Climatic
Geographical
Historical
Military
In a parliamentary republic, the government is accountable to:
A constitutional monarchy
A parliamentary republic
A presidential republic
A limited monarchy
An absolute monarchy
Concentration of the head of government’s powers in the president’s hands is characteristic of:
A presidential republic
A parliamentary republic
An absolute monarchy
A limited monarchy
A dualistic monarchy
In modern times, absolute monarchical power is preserved in which states?
United Kingdom, Japan
Sweden, Belgium
Denmark, Spain
Saudi Arabia, Oman
France, Belgium
Who is the single guardian of sovereign power?
Society as a whole
An international organization
The public
The state
All of the above
Which is a hallmark of a totalitarian political regime?
Limitation of power by law
Election of authorities by the people
Complete transfer of all spheres of social life to state control
Obligatory subordination of lower bodies to higher ones
Democracy and transparency of public bodies
A state in which the head of state is formed by hereditary succession is a:
Democracy
Monarchy
Tyranny
Republic
Aristocracy
A state in which the head of state is elected and replaceable is a:
Democracy
Despotism
Republic
Monarchy
Tyranny
Which statement is not characteristic of an authoritarian political–legal regime?
Restriction or elimination of citizens’ rights and freedoms
Strengthening the role of the appointed executive over elected bodies
Concentration of wide powers in the hands of the leader and government
The parliament’s role becomes minimal and largely decorative
Supremacy of law and the primacy of human rights and freedoms
Which of the following is the state’s external function?
National defense
Protection of citizens’ rights and freedoms
Tax collection
Ecological function
Social function
Identify the main forms through which the state carries out its functions. Select all that apply.
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Control and supervision
Legal and organizational
Identify the state’s internal functions. Select all that apply.
National defense function
Social function
World economic integration function
Ensuring peace and supporting world order
International cooperation in environmental protection
Which item does not belong to the state’s internal functions?
Economic
Cultural
Ecological
Social
Establishing peaceful relations with other countries
Which function today has characteristics of both internal and external functions?
Information
Cultural
Organizational and economic
Cultural–educational
National defense
What is the element of the state mechanism that exercises policy and has public authority?
State organ
Political party
Public association
Local self-government
Mass media
Identify the organs that belong to representative and law‑making authority from the following list: Parliament; Government; Ministries; Committees and departments; Courts.
Parliament
Government
Ministries
Committees and departments
According to the prompt "Law means ...", which option best matches the definition given: society’s rules of conduct collected as legal norms; moral ideals; skills and habits; advice and proposals; principles of kindness?
Society’s rules of conduct collected as legal norms
Moral ideals
Skills and habits
Advice and proposals
Choose the item that does NOT belong to the signs of law: legal system; equality of legal obligation; publicity (formal) and certainty of law; reliance on state force; connection with religion.
Legal system
Equality of legal obligation
Publicity and certainty of law
Reliance on state force
Select the sectoral principles of law listed: social justice; equality of citizens before the law and court; unity of rights and duties; humanism and democratism.
Social justice
Equality of citizens before the law and court
Unity of rights and duties
Humanism and democratism
From the prompt "Principles of law are ...", choose the best completion: fundamental beginnings forming law; state will found in law; set of legal signs; presumptions (assumptions).
Fundamental beginnings forming law
State will found in law
Set of legal signs
Presumptions (assumptions)
The primary element of law is
legal norm
type of law
form of law
legal principle
moral norm
Rules of behavior based on views of charity and malice, justice and injustice are
moral norms
legal norms
technical norms
religious norms
organizational and enterprise norms
A social norm enforced through state coercion is
moral norm
legal norm
customary norm
corporate norm
religious norm
The element of a legal norm that grants rights and imposes duties is
presumption
legal function
disposition
hypothesis
sanction
Social norms are best described as
rules that regulate social relations
a system of relations
state will
a legal form
legal ideas and concepts
Which is a type of social norm?
office or position
consensus
competence
custom
organization
Which of the following are recognized forms (sources) of law?
legal custom, judicial precedent, normative contract, normative legal act
acts of interpretation and acts of applying legal norms
hypothesis, disposition, sanction
court decisions
decrees and orders
Which source of law has general regulatory significance for everyone?
administrative precedents
normative legal act
judicial precedents
legal customs
moral norms
A state-recognized, universally binding rule of conduct is a
law norm
custom
corporate norm
customary norm
religious norm
Which of the following is not a source of law?
normative legal act
moral principles
legal custom
court precedent
normative agreement
Legal custom is
a historically formed rule of behavior transmitted across generations and turned into tradition
a decision of a state body
a state-ensured historically formed rule converted into tradition
a court precedent
a normative legal act
Which acts are outside the hierarchy of Kazakhstan’s normative legal acts?
the Code, laws and decrees of the President having the force of law
normative decrees of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
normative resolutions of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan
ministers’ normative orders and state committees’ normative resolutions and orders
normative resolutions of the Constitutional Council, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Central Election Commission
The approval of norms by the state and their becoming universally binding laws belongs to which concept?
political declarations
moral principles
sources of law
customary norms
technical norms
A law is
a voluntary agreement of all members of society
any official document adopted by state bodies
a repeatedly used procedure in society
a normative act with higher legal force
a socially formed custom
What do we call a legal custom?
a tradition that has reached our days
a written custom
a specifically fixed form recognized by the state and ensured by its authority
a law adopted by the state
ancient lifestyle norms
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the source of law is
the Quran and the Bible
religious norms
judicial precedent
normative legal act and normative contract
the Sunna and custom
Show the main idea of understanding law through the legal-normative approach
law is a set of political declarations
law is described by moral principles and natural laws
law is a set of rules of conduct regulating public relations that are fixed in official documents, announced publicly, and ensured by the state
law is a collection of equality, justice and freedom principles up to a normative degree
law is a cultural phenomenon of civilization
According to law, a normative act based on a law is
any official act
a notarized written document
a collection of laws
rules regulating religious relations
a legal act issued by a state administrative body to execute the law, strictly in accordance with the law
How are laws classified by the period of their effect?
official and non-official
written and oral
citizen and foreign
adopted by referendum and adopted by state bodies
permanent and temporary
How are laws classified by the law-making subject?
official and non-official
written and oral
citizen and foreign
adopted by referendum and adopted by state bodies
permanent and temporary
Which of the following are acts of application of law?
the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Law on Public Service
traffic rules
the President’s decree on measures to reform the system of state bodies
the Ministry of Finance’s instruction on the procedure for collecting taxes from individuals
the President’s decree awarding state orders, a court decision or sentence, and an order on employment
When was the first Constitution of independent sovereign Kazakhstan adopted?
August 30, 1995
December 16, 1991
October 25, 1990
January 28, 1993
September 1, 1992
A law is
a voluntary agreement of all members of society by their free will
a normative act with the highest legal force
an agreement between parties enforced through mutual consent
any official document adopted by state bodies
a repeatedly used social procedure
Types of laws include
constitutional and ordinary
adopted by referendum or by parliament
temporary and permanent
regulatory and protective
with direct or derivative force
As a general rule, does a normative legal act have retroactive force?
no
yes
only in special cases
decided in each specific case
depends on the disputed area
Which type of entry into force of a normative legal act is impossible?
after the period specified in the act expires
after a time has passed following official publication
immediate entry into force
from the moment of signing
after events specified in the act occur
Elements that make up the legal system are
legal norms, legal institutions, branches of law
normative acts, codes, laws
legal customs and judicial precedents
legal norms and branches of law
legal customs
What is the title of the act adopted by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan?
law
decree
code
order
What is the legislative system?
Legal norms
A set of normative legal acts that cover the internal content and structural features of law
The content of a legal norm
An objective system
A uniform structure of a legal norm
What is meant by the spatial scope of a legal norm?
The force of legal norms applies only to a certain circle of persons
The force of legal norms is tied to a specific time
The force of legal norms exists within a specific territory
The force of legal norms does not apply to certain persons
The procedure for repealing legal norms
Which statement best defines a normative legal act?
An act of a state body adopted in the prescribed procedure to establish, amend, or repeal legal norms
A document recognized by the state, transmitted from generation to generation as a tradition
The internal content and structural features of law
A set that includes all general rights, freedoms, and duties of citizens
A rule known historically and nationally
Legal norm as principles refers to which of the following? Select all that apply.
General rules
Norms that do not clearly express their elements
Norms that specify rules of conduct for participants in social relations
Prohibitive norms
Mandatory norms
A universally binding rule that regulates social relations ensured by the state is called what?
Moral norm
Legal norm
Religious norm
Humanistic norm
Customary norm
Which is not a characteristic of a legal norm?
Universal binding normativity
Formal definiteness
Indefiniteness of the addressee
State guarantee
Religious affiliation
By methods of legal regulation, which type of legal norms is correctly named?
Imperative—categorical, dispositive, encouraging, recommendatory norms
Legal and law-based norms
General and limited-scope norms
Material norms and procedural norms
Norms expressing powers, obligations, and prohibitions
What is a hypothesis in the structure of a legal norm?
It shows the consequences when the requirements of a legal norm are violated
It specifies the conditions under which the legal norm operates
It reveals the content of behavior (rights and duties) of legal subjects
It shows the sequence of lawmaking
It determines rights and duties
What is a disposition in the structure of a legal norm?
It shows the consequences when the requirements of a legal norm are violated
It specifies the conditions under which the legal norm operates
It reveals the content of behavior (rights and duties) of legal subjects
It shows the sequence of lawmaking
It determines legal capacity
What is a sanction in the structure of a legal norm?
It shows the consequences when the requirements of a legal norm are violated
It specifies the conditions under which the legal norm operates
It reveals the content of behavior (rights and duties) of legal subjects
It shows the sequence of lawmaking
It determines legal capacity
Which element specifies adverse measures when legal norms are violated?
Disposition
Hypothesis
Sanction
Preamble
Presumption
Which element of a legal norm determines the conditions for the application of a legal rule?
Hypothesis
Preamble
Disposition
Name the element that, by establishing rules of conduct, confers rights and imposes legal duties.
Presumption
Disposition
Hypothesis
Sanction
Preamble
Name the two main functions of law.
Imperative and dispositive
Prohibiting and granting rights
Regulatory and protective
Material and procedural
Educational and ideological
Which statement correctly describes norms that impose duties?
Norms that determine participants’ legal powers
Norms that require the performance of appropriate actions
Norms that prohibit going to authorized actions
Only norms specified in the text of the law
Rules set out in all legal norms
By the method of legal regulation, how are legal norms divided?
Corporate and state
Commercial and non-commercial
Imperative and dispositive
Law-making, declarative, subordinate
Blanket and referential
By function, what are the types of legal norms?
Protective and regulatory
General and special
Categorical and dispositive
Law-making, declarative, subordinate
Absolute and relative
By time, what are the types of legal norms?
Protective and regulatory
Permanent and temporary
Imperative and dispositive
Declarative and definitive
Blanket and referential
Which type of disposition does not specify behavior precisely and instead refers the subject to another norm?
Descriptive
Blanket
Simple
Mandatory
Referential
By disposition, which types of legal norms are correctly named?
Defining, prohibiting, mandatory
Legal and law-dependent norms
General-action norms and restricted-action norms
Material norms and procedural norms
Dispositive and imperative norms
What is the introductory part of a normative legal act called?
Hypothesis
Preamble
List of headings
Content
Presumption
By branch affiliation, which set correctly names types of legal norms?
Moral norms and religious norms
Religious norms and ethical norms
Ethical norms and moral norms
Constitutional law norms and civil law norms
Customary norms and ethical norms
Name a stage of the lawmaking process.
Initiation of lawmaking
Determining the actual circumstances of the case
Choosing the legal norm
Issuing an exact decision
Monitoring non-violation of the act of application
What is the process through which competent bodies create laws that have legal force and are put into effect?
Implementation of law
Lawmaking
Application of law
Adoption of a legal decision
Legal education
In the process of applying law, which methods fill gaps?
Comparative method
Legal analogy and analogy of statute
Similarity of precedents and departmental resolutions
Mathematical method
Grammatical method
What is meant by the lawmaking function?
The function of adopting, amending, and repealing legal norms
Any state function
Systematizing normative legal acts
Publishing normative legal acts
Implementing legal norms
What is a legal gap?
Transformation of legal norms into behavior corresponding to legal interaction
A set of legal facts necessary for the emergence of legal relations
A complete set of necessary norms for resolving social relations
The absence or insufficiency of necessary norms due to social development and practical needs
Contradiction between acts regulating the same social relations
Which is not a principle of lawmaking?
Property census
Legality
Publicity
Democratism
Professionalism
Name a stage in the lawmaking process.
Adoption of a legal act, its official procedure, and signing
Determining the actual circumstances of the case
Choosing the legal norm
Issuing an exact decision
Process documentation
Who adopts laws?
The President and the Government
Any state body
Only the people
A higher lawmaking body or a referendum
Only departments
Identify the act that belongs to subordinate normative legal acts.
A decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan having the force of law
The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Identify the item that is a law.
Government-adopted traffic rules
Criminal Code
An organization’s order
Which body has the authority to pass laws?
Government
Supreme Court
Parliament
Ministry
A departmental body
Name the subjects that have the right of legislative initiative.
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Regional governor (akim)
Chair of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Members of Parliament
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Members of Parliament
The process of streamlining normative legal acts by changing their internal content is called:
Legal system
Systematization of legislation
Consolidation
Legal order
Codification
Systematization of normative legal acts by combining them in a defined order without changing their internal content is called:
Incorporation
Systematization of legislation
Consolidation
Legal order
Codification
Normative legal act systematization is:
A state function to free current legislation from outdated rules and rework it
A state function to update legislation in line with the demands of life
Activities of state bodies to regulate legislation and bring it into a coherent system
A function in accordance with customs and traditions
A function in accordance with the demands of life and customs and traditions
Types of systematizing normative legal acts include:
Prolongation, inauguration
Promulgation, ratification
Incorporation, codification, consolidation
Codification of normative legal acts is:
Combining current legal norms into a single act
Placing legal norms in a defined order
Work aimed at a specific goal
A systematization form that combines normative acts into a single logical whole without changing their content
Incorporation means:
Regulation that carries out internal and external processing of normative materials
Processing the content of subordinate acts and restoring a previous external form
Regulating municipal bodies’ acts by changing their external form
Creating new norms for corporate organizations by forming standards
Regulation that processes only the external form of normative materials without changing content
A code is:
A legislative act that logically unifies and systematizes legal norms regulating homogeneous social relations
An act approving the foundations of social and state structure
A set of legal norms
Any act regulating crucial social relations
A decision of a state body in specific cases
Legal technique includes:
Clarity, precision, simplicity, and comprehensibility of legal language
Interrelation, consistency, and internal unity of legal material
Sequence in the content of legal information
Conciseness, accuracy, and full, consistent use of legal concepts
The aggregate of methods for preparing, adopting, publishing, and systematizing normative legal acts
Components of the legal system include:
Legal norms, legal institutions, and branches of law
Articles of normative acts, codes, and other bases
Only branches of law
State bodies
Only norms
A legal institution is:
A stable set of legal norms regulating specific social relations
The smallest unit of law, a legal norm
Law taken as a whole
The function of law
A set of rules
What term denotes the internal organization of law that includes its various elements, their hierarchy, and interrelations?
Branch of law
System of statutes
System of social relations
Legal system
Legal institution
The basic element of the legal system is:
Religious norms
Legal relations
Moral norms
Legal norms
Branches of law
The main criterion for dividing the legal system into branches is:
Decision of the legislature
Subject and method of legal regulation
Foundations or sources of law
Legal consciousness
Practical application
The subject of legal regulation is:
A set of methods and techniques by which law affects a particular sphere of social relations
A field of social relations conditioned by the specifics of human activity
Rights and duties of subjects and their legal obligations
An established organization with property in conditional form
The totality of all human rights and freedoms
A branch of law is:
Law taken as a whole
A legal norm
A set of legal norms regulating homogeneous social relations
A rule of conduct defined for organizations to achieve their goals
A social normative regulator
A legal institution is:
A set of legal norms that regulate a type of social relations
A set of legal norms regulating social relations and their differences
A legal feature
A system of homogeneous legal institutions
Public law includes:
Civil law
Commercial law
Administrative law
Family law
Property law
Does ignorance of the law free a person from liability before the law?
Yes, it frees from liability
It frees only minors
No, it does not free from liability
It frees only certain citizens specified by law
It frees disabled persons and poor groups
Legal consciousness is:
A set of concepts and feelings about law
Legal violation
A positive attitude toward law, respect for law, and fair evaluation
Legal position of a subject to lawful conduct
A subject’s unlawful conduct
Ordinary legal consciousness is:
Notions, concepts, and ideas of law formed by scholars and officials
Mass public understanding about law
A legal stance that contradicts law
Ideas, concepts, and views about law
Legal understanding of public officials
Legal nihilism is:
Distrust of law, devaluation of law, ignoring statutes and regulations
A qualitative state or manifestation of law
Public opinion that justifies the necessity of law
A theory about the origin of the state
Basic principles of law
The set of views, feelings, and emotions about law is:
Legal culture
Legal nihilism
Legal consciousness
Legal ideology
Legal conformity
Professional legal consciousness is:
Concepts, understandings, ideas, and beliefs about law formed within the circle of legal professionals
Legal views expressing mastery of law’s system and theory
General public understandings about law
Understandings among adolescents and minors about law
Understandings of lawbreakers about law
Indicate the elements of the structure of legal consciousness:
Legal understanding and legal sincerity
Legal nihilism and legal ideology
Legal informatism and legal culture
Mechanism of legal regulation
Legal ideology and legal psychology
The type of socially useful behavior that does not contradict legal norms is:
Behavior contrary to law
Neutral behavior
Lawful behavior
Bad behavior
Offense
How is legal consciousness distinguished by legal subjects?
Individual, group, organizational
Individual, group, public
Group, organizational, individual
Logical, group, organizational
Group, logical, public
Indicate a sign that is not characteristic of legal nihilism:
Lowering the role of law in life
Low legal culture
Respect for law
