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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 cannot laws be reduced to?

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

3. What do criminal laws specifies must be followed?

4. Who makes the law created by past regimes binding, according to some philosophers?

5. What example does Hart give about non optional conduct that are not law?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do we speak of justice?

2. What is law?

3. What did Hart want to advance?

4. What does the criminal law specify?

5. What do judges have powers to do?

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

7. What are secondary rules?

8. What are customs given?

9. What requires a critical reflective attitude?

10. What are primary rules according to Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the origins of laws.

Essay Topic 2

Compare moral rules and legal rules.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what moral rules are and the four qualities that a moral law must possess.

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