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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 do Rules of continuity give future individuals the right to?

2. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?

3. What is the concept of law according to Hart?

4. What is related to law according to Hart?

5. How do people obey?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the habit of obedience understood to apply to?

2. What did secondary rules confer?

3. What does the doctrine of sovereignty often hold?

4. Why is social pressure serious?

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

6. What are secondary rules?

7. What is law?

8. What is rare for individuals in modern societies?

9. What are primary rules according to Chapter 5?

10. What will happen if we examine the many types of law according to Chapter 3?

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

Discuss legal positivism and what positivists think of natural law.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Dworkin's view with the views of Hart based on the Postscript.

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