Legal positivism
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title:
Legal positivism
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In jurisprudence and legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts of legislation, judicial decisions, and customs, rather than on morality. This contrasts with natural law theory, which holds that law is necessarily connected to morality in such a way that any law that contradicts morality lacks legal validity. Thomas Hobbes defined law as the command of the sovereign. This idea was elaborated in the 18th and
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School of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_positivism
date created:
2003-08-12T15:42:06Z
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2024-08-31T16:06:20Z
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