LSAT 23 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q7

RC Question 7 Explanation

DISCUSSION: If you read lines 1-6, you’ll see that the author thinks medievalists make a simplistic distinction between public and private law.

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1. The medievalists don’t even mention landowners, or changes in law.
2. Widows owed their wealth and influence to private law. So the author would argue the opposite. Private law was more powerful than the medievalists thought.
3. The medievalists don’t mention how much wealth women had.
4. This hits on the right distinction, but neither the medievalists nor the author mention specific legal cases.
5. CORRECT. This is it. The medievalists ignored that a widow could wield public influence if private law let her acquire wealth.