Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. Under the status quo , there is no superordinate legal document to which an individual or the government can point when they dispute whether or not a law is legitimate .
2. For example , some people contest whether anti-social behavioral orders -LRB- ASBOs -RRB- which bar individuals from certain activities or place or CCTV cameras , are a legitimate use of the coercive power of the state .
3. Not every time that civil rights are eroded is it the result of the government overstepping what were previously thought to be the clear boundaries of the states power ; sometimes there is a legitimate grey area regarding the meeting of two rights .
4. Entrenching the respective rights of individuals and the government adds clarity to issues where the boundaries of the law are vague .
5. It is crucial to have an independent metric by which we evaluate when the government reaches the limits of what it may justly legislate .
6. Regardless of which way the judiciary rules , it must be backed up by reasoned argument and interpretation of specific legal principles explicitly outlined in the constitution .
7. A constitution would subject controversial laws to judicial review , yielding a more precise ruling on their constitutionality .
8. Thus , while popular opinion can prevent the government from brazen violations of citizens rights , more nuanced infringements persist with impunity .

Claim: The Constitution as a Means of Evaluating the Legitimacy of Laws


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. Quotas attempting to maximise the number of educated and skilled women in executive positions could improve corporate performance and help raise national productivity .
2. But doing so will depend on keeping ambitious , well-qualified women moving up the management ranks .
3. Gender quotas will encourage more women to pursue education and career options leading to the top of executive positions .
4. Quotas create incentives for women to adapt their job preferences to the more accessible boardroom positions and develop necessary skills which would reduce the need for positive discrimination in the future .
5. Encouraged to develop relevant skills , women will contribute to the long-term talent pool and the economy .
6. According to McKinsey report , womens interest in being leaders increases as they progress from entry level to middle management which is exactly what the principle behind quotas aims to encourage - more women following professional career development .
7. This is very important in the short run during which , according to research , women who have high position stimulate other womens interest in traditionally male-dominated sectors and encourage them to pursue similar career paths . .

Claim: Quotas encourage women to pursue education and professional job positions


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. Age of consent laws were the product of a purity campaign in Britain in the 1800s , when it was believed that sex was a male privilege , that it led to the sexual ruin of young women , that it meant the loss of their virtue , which was a fate worse than death , and that it contributed to womens second class citizenship .
2. The idea that young people should not be having sex is a leftover relic from the past : its justifications are anachronistic and have little place in modern times .
3. Today these ideas would offend both men and women .
4. In the UK the age of 16 was chosen and set in 1885 , more than 100 years ago , and has remained ever since .

Claim: The censorship laws are a relic from the past.


Question: What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. Rather than passively holding their assets , they may seek to use their purchases to gain access to natural resources , advanced technologies , including those crucial to our defence , or other strategic sectors .
2. For example Gulf states are using their SWFs to invest in food and natural resources from Latin America .
3. Sovereign wealth funds raise worrying issues about national security .
4. Unlike mutual funds or private equity groups , which seek only to maximise their investors returns , SWFs must be regarded as political entities .
5. Allowing countries such as China , Russia and various Gulf states to buy up western companies at will is potentially very dangerous .
6. Even if we regard these states as friendly at the moment , there is no guarantee that they will stay that way , especially as none of them share our political values .
7. They may engage in economic nationalism , shutting factories in western countries to give an unfair advantage to their own industries .
8. While it has not yet happened they may even attempt economic blackmail , threatening to turn off the lights through their control of energy companies and utilities if governments do not fall in with their foreign policy aims .

Claim:
SWFs can harm national security