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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 are rules sometime understood as?

2. What do laws specify?

3. What would allow all laws to be considered conditional orders to officials to apply sanctions?

4. How many categories do objections fall into?

5. That do the nullity as sanction view try to produce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did customary societies have?

2. What happens to laws?

3. What did Hart want to advance?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Hart continue to illustrate?

9. What do judges have powers to do?

10. What are customs given?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the sovereignty conception of law.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the six connections between law and morality and why they are often confused.

Essay Topic 3

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

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