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

2. What do laws regulate in advance?

3. What is law?

4. What do constitutions imply?

5. What do laws modify in many cases?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the doctrine of sovereignty often hold?

2. What did Hart focus on according to Chapter 4?

3. What do judges have powers to do?

4. What did customary societies have?

5. What did Hart want to advance?

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

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

8. What do laws require?

9. Why is the concept of law hard, according to Chapter 1?

10. What requires a critical reflective attitude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Examine the origins of laws.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one question raised by Hart's theory, examine its significance, and come to a conclusion regarding the question.

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