Law and Morality (AQA A-Level Law): Flashcards

Objective, enforced by state with formal sanctions

Subjective personal codes, enforced by social condemnation

Society with multiple cultures, races, religions, beliefs

Laws and morals should be kept separate

Law should enforce moral values

Minimum standards, not maximum

State can only interfere to prevent harm to others

Natural law - consent cannot make immoral acts lawful

Positivism - privacy in consensual marital conduct respected

Private morality is not the law's business