PrepTest 136, Section 3, Question 21
Most people acknowledge that not all governments have(453 more words not shown)
The author identifies which one(8 more words not shown)
- AIn most cases(14 more words not shown)
- BAll governments are(4 more words not shown)
- CWe are morally(10 more words not shown)
- DMost crimes are(7 more words not shown)
- EThe majority of(9 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The commonly held belief appears in the opening, before the theory is introduced: exceptions aside, people generally have a moral duty to obey a law simply because it is a law. The author is reporting that view, not asking us to agree with it. Keep it separate from philosophical anarchism, which then denies that duty.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
This restates the opening's idea that a law's legal status itself creates an ethical obligation to follow it (paragraph 1). In most cases matches the qualification that immoral laws can create exceptions. The belief concerns legal status itself, not just whether a particular law has a good purpose.
- B
Moral equality among all governments is a consequence the critics attribute to philosophical anarchism. It isn't identified as the commonly held belief, and the author explains why the theory doesn't require it.
- C
Participation in making a law is never given as the condition for a duty to obey it. The discussion doesn't establish that rule.
- D
Some legal conventions, such as which side to drive on, aren't inherently moral choices. That doesn't establish a commonly held belief that most crimes are morally neutral.
- E
Nothing says most existing laws are intended to prevent harm. The author's later argument about duties not to harm people isn't a count of the purposes behind existing laws.
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