Ch11 Test Questions & Answers True False Law, Social Change, - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 11
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. Law has historically been the most important generator of social change.
2. Sometimes law leads to changes in social conditions, and sometimes changes in social conditions give rise to new law.
3. “Law is to be based on local customs and traditions rather than universal principles of justice.” This is primarily a liberal view of law.
4. Scott v. Sandford was a slavery case that probably propelled the Southern states into supporting the American Revolution.
5. The American Revolution signaled a rejection of all things British.
6. The Soviet Union tried to cloak all its many social changes under legalism.
7. The Soviet Union created many ex post facto laws.
8. The Soviet Union tried to destroy the Soviet nuclear family.
9. The Supreme Court stands aloof from the American people by design.
10. A strict constitutional constructionist is a constitutional liberal.
11. A strict constructionist justice in the early 1800s would have been bound to find slavery unconstitutional.
12. The Supreme Court is bound by the literal meaning of the Constitution.
13. The Supreme Court has neither the power of the sword nor the power of the purse.
14. Judicial review has historically been more popular among conservatives and the upper classes than among liberals and the working classes.
15. The Fourteenth Amendment, although designed to serve the most oppressed people in American society, actually favored the interests of the wealthy and business.
16. In 1937 the Supreme Court ruled that the Wagner Act, legalizing trade unions in the United States, was unconstitutional.
17. Since its inception the Supreme Court has been a strong advocate of state’s rights.
18. Brown v. Board of Education enunciated the “separate but equal” doctrine with regard to race relations.
19. Scott v. Sandford strongly undermined nationalist sentiments in the United States in favor of state’s rights and devolutionist sentiments.
20. The first case in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of workers and against business interests occurred in 1912.
21. Because of the sheer complexity of modern societies and the intricate interaction of their component parts, each social change generates its own momentum.
22. Law is the most important mechanism of social change.
23. There is a reciprocal relationship between law and social change
24. Somerset v. Stewart outlawed slavery in the British empire.
25. The leaders of the American Revolution were strong supporters of the English constitution.
26. Gerald Rosenberg favors the constrained view of the extent of the Supreme Court’s power to affect social change.
27. A strict constructionist is more like a legal positivist than a legal realist.
28. Most of the delegates at the Continental Convention favored judicial review.
29. The Supreme Court has functioned throughout history more like an adherent of natural law theory than a legal positivist.
30. Roe v. Wade banned prayer in public schools.
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