Practice question · True or false
For Hart, a rule of recognition is a secondary rule.
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- Ask what the rule is about: conduct, or other rules?
- It identifies what counts as law in the system.
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True
Why
True. Secondary rules are rules about rules, and the rule of recognition is the one that says what counts as law in the system at all. It sits alongside rules of change, which govern how norms are made and repealed, and rules of adjudication, which govern who decides disputes and by what procedure.
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