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6. Inclusive Positivism disagrees that legal reasoning is purely...?
- Factual
- Deductive
- Moral
- Inductive
7. What is the Separability Thesis?
- The law is as serviceable for evil as it is for good
- Law must be capable of possessing legitimate authority
- There are no boundaries on the rule of recognition
- All criteria of legal validity must be source based
8. Hart disputes Dworkin's views on morality being controversial by claiming that...?
- Moral questions never have a correct answer
- Morality is a universal view which cannot be disputed
- Moral tests can provide public standards of conduct and some moral questions are easy
- People's ideas of what is moral differ in society
9. Raz distinguishes between...?
- Focal and Secondary meanings of law
- Substantive and Procedural law
- First order and Second order reasons
- Formal and Informal reasons
10. According to Raz, authority is justified if...?
- We are likely to comply with reasons that apply to us if we obey authority
- Laws are prospective and not retrospective
- Laws are made by the sovereign and not judges
- The merits of a rule are examined and found to be moral
11. What is the service conception of authority?
- Authority provides a service by giving us reasons to act
- Authority service the moral interests of society
- Authority uses the Law to service the public good
- Authority provides a service by enforcing public standards of conduct
12. Who is the main proponent of Exclusive Positivism?
13. Who said that the validity of Law comes from a chain of unbroken norms?
14. According to Raz, what is inconsistent with the nature of law?
- Moral tests
- Procedurally defective law
- Judge-made law
- The separability thesis
15. What was Beyleveld and Brownsword's reply to Hart's theory?
- Officials must consider their standards to be moral
- His theory is not a threat to the separability thesis
- If the merits of a rule must be examined, it cannot function as authority
- Only representatives should make law
16. Who claims that 'Law is a command of the Sovereign and may be evil'?
- Austin
- Dworkin
- Kelsen
- Hart
17. Which view of law do Exclusive Positivists take?
- Rulebook view
- Rights view
- Plain-fact view
- Moral view
18. Who says that 'the identification of law in every system necessarily involves moral judgements'?
19. According to Dworkin, what is controversial?
- Having a moral criteria of legal validity
- Judges using their own judgements instead of legal rules to decide cases
- The claim that laws do not have to be moral
- The way in which laws are made
20. How do Exclusive Positivists believe that Law can be shown to possess legitimate authority?
- By adhering to moral criterias of validity
- By being presented as the law-makers view of how to behave
- By only being made by democratically elected people
- By having no boundaries on the rule of recognition