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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Sovereign and Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a common myth about laws?
(a) That they are all public.
(b) That they are fair.
(c) That they are written with the public's best interest in mind.
(d) That they are easy to understand.

2. Who is the habit of obedience understood to apply to?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) A limited group of people.
(c) Law enforcement.
(d) Law makers.

3. What have judges power to do in the structure judicial practice?
(a) Make decisions on their own.
(b) Interpret laws.
(c) Create laws.
(d) Try certain types of cases.

4. What do making laws differ from?
(a) Regulating lives.
(b) Converting customs.
(c) Regulating behaviors.
(d) Giving orders to individuals.

5. What do Rules of continuity give future individuals the right to?
(a) Change laws.
(b) Ignore the law.
(c) A fair trial.
(d) Assume the same power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the law of torts specify the conditions of?

2. What do rules do?

3. What does the doctrine of sovereignty often hold?

4. When does the concept of nullity arise?

5. How are laws obeyed?

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