Law and Morality | OCR A-Level Law (H418)
Law and Morality
- 14 questions
- 1 subtopics
- The nature of law, on whichever third paper you sit
- Component 3 and Component 4
Whether the law should enforce a shared morality, and the debate that question produced..
It covers law and morals: legal theory, pluralism and the Devlin-Hart debate.
Sample questions from Law and Morality
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Law and morals: legal theory, pluralism and the Devlin-Hart debate
Give an example of conduct that is illegal but not necessarily immoral.
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Parking offences. -
Law and morals: legal theory, pluralism and the Devlin-Hart debate
Summarise Lord Devlin's argument on law and morality.
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Devlin argued that society has a shared morality essential to its cohesion and that the law is entitled to enforce this common morality to prevent societal disintegration.
The 1 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Law and morals: legal theory, pluralism and the Devlin-Hart debate | Recall questions on defining morality, how law and morals differ in function and enforcement, conduct that is immoral, illegal or both, pluralism, legal positivism and natural law, the Devlin-Hart debate and the Wolfenden Report, and areas where morality and law have clashed in the courts. | 14 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
Nearby topics
OCR A-Level Law Active Recall Guide
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