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Law and Morality

  • 1 subtopics
  • 3 things to know
  • Components 3 and 4

What Law and Morality covers

Whether the law should enforce a shared morality, and the debate that question produced.

Where it is assessed

Components 3 and 4

The nature of law, Section A of whichever third paper is taken.

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The 1 subtopics

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What you need to know

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Key term

How do legal and moral rules differ?

Evaluation

Should the law enforce a shared morality?

Key term

What is morality?

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The same content, four other ways.

Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

  • Law vs Morality

    Law: rules enforced by the state with formal sanctions. Morality: standards of right conduct enforced by conscience and social disapproval.

  • Legal positivism vs Natural law

    Legal positivism: the view that a law is valid because of how it was made, whatever its content. Natural law: the view that law derives its authority from an underlying moral order.

  • The Hart-Devlin debate vs The Wolfenden Report

    The Hart-Devlin debate: the argument over whether the law should enforce shared morality. The Wolfenden Report: the 1957 report recommending that private consensual conduct be decriminalised.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What is morality?

    Model answer

    Morality refers to beliefs and values about right and wrong conduct that guide behaviour, often based on conscience, religion, or social consensus.

  2. 2

    In what way does law differ from morality regarding what each concerns and how each is enforced?

    Model answer

    Law concerns external conduct and is enforced by state institutions, while morality concerns internal conscience and is enforced by social disapproval or personal guilt.

  3. 3

    How does the function of morals differ from the function of law in regulating behaviour?

    Model answer

    Morals regulate behaviour through internal conscience and social pressure, while law regulates behaviour through enforceable rules backed by state sanctions.

  4. 4

    Give an example of conduct that is both immoral and illegal.

    Model answer

    Murder.

  5. 5

    Give an example of conduct that is illegal but not necessarily immoral.

    Model answer

    Parking offences.

  6. 6

    Give an example of conduct that is immoral but not illegal in England.

    Model answer

    Adultery.

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What does Law and Morality cover in OCR A-Level Law?
1 subtopics: law and morals: legal theory, pluralism and the devlin-hart debate. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
How is Law and Morality organised?
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