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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 subordinate to rules of recognition?

2. What do we need to define state sovereignty?

3. What cannot be given for everything?

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

5. What is there not of between determinate rules and rule skepticism?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were the boundaries left up to?

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

5. What ambiguity did Hart discuss?

6. What is morality not enforced with?

7. What do many nations have under international law?

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

9. What issue does Hart raise about judicial decisions?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one question raised by Hart's theory, examine its significance, and come to a conclusion regarding the question.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of obligation when it comes to social morality and human conduct.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss judicial practice and the infallibility and finality of judicial decisions.

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