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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 do natural law presume human possess?

2. What do judges do when they state that a law is valid?

3. What are the ultimate rules?

4. How does Hart call a legal system when one group cease to do its parts?

5. What is the most dangerous sort of international disputes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What standard to we try to employ?

2. What does legislation tend to focus on according to Chapter 7?

3. What is there a conviction of outside the law?

4. What does international law seem to have in Chapter 10?

5. What happened when secondary rules of recognition were accepted according to Chapter 6?

6. What does Chapter 8 inquire into the relationship between?

7. What was not enough?

8. What were the boundaries left up to?

9. How could the ultimate rule of recognition be recognized?

10. What will always conflict?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine H.L.A. Hart's definition of the concept of law, and discuss the three questions that combine into the question of what law is.

Essay Topic 2

Develop your own concept of law and determine what law needs to include.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss legal positivism and what positivists think of natural law.

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