Part 1

Question 1

Innovations and inventions cause this change

Answer 1

technological changes

Question 2

change in birth and death rates

Answer 2

demographical changes

Question 3

change in societal behaviors ( drinking and driving laws)

Answer 3

change in values

Question 4

response to a national emergency (War Measures Act)

Answer 4

national emergencies

Question 5

what are the three conditions for laws to change

Answer 5

respect the rule of law, democratic government, and justice system needs to be independent of other branches of gov

Question 6

morgentaler

Answer 6

abortion

Question 7

rodriguez

Answer 7

assisted suicide

Question 8

Tommy Douglas

Answer 8

intro to medicine

Question 9

sauve

Answer 9

prisoners right to vote

Question 10

vriend

Answer 10

same-sex rights

Question 11

a lot of people trying to influence legislators on behalf of a particular cause of interest - Most effective

Answer 11

Lobby Groups

Question 12

board of inquiry appointed by the gov to investigate and report on particular issues. Calls public meetings, gathers testimony

Answer 12

Royal Commissions

Question 13

produce scholarly books or articles on a particular issue to change the law
( battered women syndrome)

Answer 13

legal scholarship

Question 14

partake in political demonstrations as a right under section 2 freedom of peaceful assembly.

Answer 14

political demonstration

Question 15

what is this primary source of law: Jedeo-Christian heritage/ 10 commandments

Answer 15

religion and morality

Question 16

what is the primary source: greek, Roman, British, french?

Answer 16

historical influences

Question 17

who created trial by jury

Answer 17

greek

Question 18

who created coded laws/laws of 10 tables?

Answer 18

Romans

Question 19

who created trial by ordeal/Magna Carta

Answer 19

British

Question 20

who created civil laws and the Napoleonic code?

Answer 20

French

Question 21

what is this primary source of law: long-established ways of doing things that over time acquired the force of law, a way of doing something accepted for so long it is an unwritten rule.

Answer 21

influence of customs, and conventions

Question 22

what is this primary source of law: social movements, laws that dealt with the environment at the time

Answer 22

influence of social and political philosophy

Question 23

what is this secondary source of law?: the body of law that deals with the distribution of government powers and sets out certain important legal principles, contains content from the BNA act

Answer 23

Constitution law

Question 24

what is this secondary source of law?: any law passed by the fed or pro gov

Answer 24

statue law

Question 25

what is this secondary source of law: a judge's decision/contributions to case law, must follow case precedent.

Answer 25

case law

Question 26

what is this type of law, it law that identifies the rights and duties of a person or level of government Laws that define crimes within the Canadian Criminal Code

Answer 26

substantive

Question 27

what kind of law is this, law that outlines the methods or procedures that must be followed in enforcing substantive laws How arrests and trials must be conducted

Answer 27

procedural

Question 28

what kind of law is this, A law that governs activities within a particular country( Ex…The Firearms Act has no application outside of Canada)

Answer 28

domestic

Question 29

what are the three types of public law?

Answer 29

constitutional, administrative, criminal

Question 30

what are the 5 types of private law?

Answer 30

family, contract, tort, estate, property

Question 31

philosophical interpretations of the meaning and nature of law.

Answer 31

Jurisprudence

Question 32

natural law: the purpose of the law is to serve as a moral guide on how to live a good life, law is just ( civil disobedience)

Answer 32

Socrates and Plato

Question 33

natural law: Law is derived from Nature and is inherent in all things animate and inanimate. produce human happiness. human reason guided by observation. This is called rationalism.

Answer 33

aristotle

Question 34

Natural law: The validity of law is based on its moral content or justness.

Answer 34

aquinas

Question 35

positive law: The state of nature is a state of perpetual war where the strong prey on the weak. In the state of nature, life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. In order to survive, people must give up their rights to the state.

Answer 35

hobbes

Question 36

All people have natural rights given to them by birth from God. The most fundamental rights are life, liberty, and property.

Answer 36

locke

Question 37

Utilitarianism- the greatest good for the greatest number of people. The purpose of law is to maintain social order and the social good.

Answer 37

Bentham