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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. Who does the populace trust to determine the specificity of the laws?

2. What is a book of statutes not necessarily?

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

4. What would breaking the rule do to society?

5. What do laws specify?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the first two questions that combine into the question of what law is?

3. What requires a critical reflective attitude?

4. What do laws require?

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

6. Who do the laws made by the Queen of England not apply to?

7. What do laws sometimes apply to?

8. What did Hart want to advance?

9. What are primary rules according to Chapter 5?

10. What do judges have powers to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the tie between international law and morality.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dworkin's challenge to Hart's view, and what Dworkin thinks Hart's view commits him to.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the objections to Austin's basic definition of law.

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