LSAT 143 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q10

RC Question 10 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: The author of the passage regards the legal…

DISCUSSION: If you go back to the passage and read the entire sentence quoted, this question is easy. The quotation in the question itself leaves out the start of the sentence: “Under the law, a right of recourse….”

So the author thinks this principle is well established in law.

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1. CORRECT. See the analysis above. The full sentence quoted says this pretty directly.
2. Nonsense. Lines 25-26 define the function of the law: “the settlement of normative disputes.”
   The quoted lines aren’t part of this.
3. The author doesn’t talk about tools judges can use to disguise their real reasoning.
4. In the final paragraph, the author argues that bias without harm is fine because there’s only a right to recourse if there’s harm.
   So the author thinks this is fair, not unfair.
5. Nonsense. In the fourth paragraph the author is making a new proposal. They think this right of recourse is central to their new idea, not the old system.