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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are rules typically regarded as?

2. What is it best to try and acquire according to Hart?

3. What would we find if we were to examine many types of laws, according to Hart in chapter 3?

4. Where do many laws originate from?

5. What would allow all laws to be considered conditional orders to officials to apply sanctions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Hart want to advance?

2. What does Hart continue to illustrate?

3. What can the definition of law help provide?

4. What are secondary rules?

5. What was the most serious attempt to analyze the concept of law according to Chapter 2?

6. What is rare for individuals in modern societies?

7. What requires a critical reflective attitude?

8. Where is the sovereignty conception of law held to be true?

9. What are understood as norms?

10. Why is social pressure serious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the minimum content view and why it does away with teleology.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss legal positivism and what positivists think of natural law.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of obligation when it comes to social morality and human conduct.

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