Rule of Law

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  • Created on: 05-01-17 17:36

1. Conceptsof law include the ideas that no person should be punished unfairly, every person is subjected to the law of the land and common law creates rights and liberties higher that the bill of rights. Who said this?

  • Dicey
  • Aristotle
  • Socrates
  • Fuller
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2. Why is judicial review important in upholdnng the rule of law?

  • Provies checks and balances against government abuse of powers, tyrannt and arbitrary.
  • Allows the government to have total control over the land
  • Allows the government to access all powers available within the realm
  • Government are subjected to a withdrawal of all powers

3. There are three branches of the rule of law. What are they?

  • accordance to the law, under the law and according to a higher law
  • accordance to the law, above the law, contrary to the law
  • accordance to the law, according to moral standards, under natural justice
  • According to higher law, according to natural justice, above the law

4. principle of legality is the idea that

  • any law may be created as long as it applies within the moral standards of the government of the day
  • no written law may be enforced unless it conforms to the principles of fairness, morality and justice
  • every law must made in line with the legal standards required by the executive government
  • no law shall be made without the bill being approved by Parliament

5. Professor Raz suggested that law as a political theory or ideal should exhibit certin characteristics. These characteristics were:

  • Prospective, private, accessible, not ambiguous and guided by clear rules
  • prospective, open and clear, easily accessible and not ambiguous
  • Retrospective, open, easily accessible, ambiguous
  • Propspective, non-ambiguous, easily accessible, no access to courts, no clear rules

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