Legal justice is best described as the social responsibilities that citizens owe their country and society.

• A. Legal justice
• B. Social justice
• C. Commutative justice
• D. Distributive justice

Answer: (A)

This item tests how different forms of justice relate to our duties within a political community. Legal justice is about the duties and obligations that arise from belonging to a state—obedience to laws, paying taxes, serving in civic duties, and otherwise fulfilling what the law requires of citizens. The description “the social responsibilities that citizens owe their country and society” aligns with this sense: it frames duties as owed to the political body through law and structure, not as distributions or personal exchanges.

Commutative justice deals with fairness in private transactions between individuals, distributive justice concerns how goods and honors are allocated by the community, and social justice focuses on broader fairness and rights within social structures. Those perspectives don’t to the same extent define the duties one owes to the state by virtue of citizenship, so they’re not the best fit here.