December 2007 LSAT Section 1 Question 16

Jurist: A nation's laws must be viewed as expressions of a moral code that transcends those laws and serves as a mea...

Nativeguy on June 29 at 01:47PM

Conclusion last sentence or first

I got the correct answer just curious as to what the conclusion would be? Though I got the answer correct I thought the conclusion was the first sentence.

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Nativeguy on June 29 at 01:49PM

I tried the the "Because" technique as well

Emil-Kunkin on June 30 at 12:08AM

Hi I think the last sentence is the conclusion here. The argument more or less is that "X is the case, if X were not the case we would have this ridiculous situation. Thus, laws must be a certain way." I think that the author is trying to prove that there must be a moral code that transcends law, and that because of that, we must have some exceptions. I think the first sentence is an intermediate conclusion.