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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 in a sense general?

2. What are rules typically regarded as?

3. What could the definition of law provide a map for?

4. What do constitutions specify?

5. How can laws of judicial practice and other like it be understood as?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do laws sometimes apply to?

4. What have some philosophers analyzed?

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

6. What did Hart want to advance?

7. What does the doctrine of sovereignty often hold?

8. What do laws require?

9. What are secondary rules?

10. What do judges have powers to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss natural law theory and what it encompasses.

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 minimum content view and why it does away with teleology.

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