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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. How does Hart name the ones that create the law in Chapter 4?

2. What do rules do?

3. What does the distinction make sense of, according to Hart?

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

5. What is law?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is social pressure serious?

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

3. What do judges have powers to do?

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

5. What did secondary rules confer?

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

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

8. What can the definition of law help provide?

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

10. What does Hart continue to illustrate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of primary and secondary rules.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the habit of obedience and how it is understood according to Hart's discussion.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the origins of laws.

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