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How many kinds of secondary rule does Hart distinguish?
Hints
- Recognition is one of them.
- Recognition, change, and adjudication.
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3
Why
Three: recognition, change and adjudication. Each answers a defect of a regime made only of primary rules, uncertainty about what the rules are, the static character of rules that can only change by slow custom, and the inefficiency of having no one authorised to settle whether a rule was broken.
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