Borough of Manhattan Community College Jurisprudence Law True or False Quiz Questions

QUESTION 1

Positive law is not made by man to rule man.

True or False

QUESTION 2

Positive law is not found by following precedent and tradition.

True or False

QUESTION 3

An example of positive law is the murder statute of the Penal Law in N.Y.S.

True or False

QUESTION 4

Natural Law has been called the law of nature and Nature’s Law.

True or False

QUESTION 5

The Natural Law is found by the exercise of right reason.

True or False

QUESTION 6

The theory of natural law originated with the Stoics.

True or False

QUESTION 7

Natural Law embodies those rules of Justice discernable by right reason.

True or False

QUESTION 8

Natural Law is based on the theory that there is a higher rational order of things and that man is intelligent enough to understand the higher rational order.

True or False

QUESTION 9

United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. regarded Natural Law as a “mystic over law” and the produce of wishful thinking.

True or False

QUESTION 10

Aristotle was born in Stagira, within the Kingdom of Macedonia, in 384 B.C.

True or False