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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 many camps does Hart divide the question of legal laws resting on moral laws, according to Chapter 9?

2. What make the conduct obligatory?

3. What do some see morality as doing?

4. What can judges statement be because of their external point of view?

5. What do justice demand the promotion of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we often equate the legal system with?

2. What is morality not enforced with?

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

4. What are the six connections between law and morality?

5. What does legal positivism hold according to Chapter 9?

6. What do positivists tend to see natural law as?

7. What is often indeterminate?

8. What does justice demand the promotion of?

9. What are the two problems that arise?

10. What were the boundaries left up to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss legal positivism and what positivists think of natural law.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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