GOVT 345 Quiz 1 Liberty University

1. Mercy is rarely a topic in jurisprudence and thus may be safely ignored by Christians.
2. Mercy is rarely a topic in jurisprudence and thus may be safely ignored by Christians.
3. Classical liberalism such as the American constitutional order emphasizes liberty properly defined.
4. An overly cynical view of the law can, ironically, make one an antinomian jurist.
5. Ontology is the study of value.
6. The law and social theory school is more comfortable using the law as a tool to advance social policies.
7. Jurisprudence and philosophy of law are essentially synonymous
8. Belief in biblical revelation is inherently irrational.
9. Anthropological jurisprudence goes beyond formal legal institutions to study non-legal conflict resolution.
10. Critical legal theory is skeptical and arguably even cynical.
11. Christians have a supernaturalistic ontology.
12. Noah Webster, the “Founding Father of American Education”, believed the study of jurisprudence to be just below theology in importance.
13. Natural law theory disregards any law not written down.
14. Evolution is a naturalistic ontology that says energy or matter begat matter.
15. Jurisdiction means possessing the right or authority to speak the law.
16. Epistemology is the study of purposes or ends.
17. A tyrant is likely to demand what God forbids and forbid what God commands.
18. All feminists view law and the legal systems as instruments of patriarchal oppression.
19. All feminists view law and the legal systems as instruments of patriarchal oppression.
20. The Greek word for “perfect” is telos and means absolutely flawless.