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    Challenges→The legal effect of the Road Traffic Act does not depend merely on physical facts and social facts.

    If legal effect reduces to socially constituted semantic facts, then the Road Traffic Act's effect is fully grounded in social facts.

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    • 1.Legal norms like speed limits exist only because communities collectively recognize and enforce them as binding rules.
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    • 2.The Road Traffic Act's enforceability depends entirely on social institutions interpreting and applying its provisions.
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    • 3.No physical facts about roads determine their legal status; only shared human understanding does.
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    • 1.Physical facts about vehicle capability and road safety constrain what traffic laws can effectively be—they're not purely conventional.
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    • 2.Legal effects include causally efficacious penalties; social constitution alone doesn't explain coercive force or institutional power.
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    • 3.The claim conflates the origin of laws with their normative force; social creation ≠ reduction to social facts.
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