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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Sovereign and Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do criminal laws specifies must be followed?
(a) Morality.
(b) The spirit of the law.
(c) Duties.
(d) The letter of the law.

2. What do rules do?
(a) Allow law makers to make laws.
(b) Allow behaviors that are not forbidden.
(c) Forbid certain type of behavior under penalty.
(d) Allow a community to live in peace.

3. Who denies there are true laws against murder?
(a) Kelsen.
(b) Roberts.
(c) Kristiansen.
(d) Kartosen.

4. What is the price of Uniformity?
(a) Speed.
(b) Unreliability.
(c) Slowness.
(d) Distortion.

5. Who makes the law created by past regimes binding, according to some philosophers?
(a) The force of habit.
(b) The police force.
(c) Custom.
(d) The current authority.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are 'real' rules, according to Hart?

2. What is law not understood as, according to the author of Province of Jurisprudence Determined?

3. What are rules typically regarded as?

4. What is the first step in figuring out what law is according to Hart?

5. What are laws?

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