The fundamental principle of legal positivism is to draw a clear cut demarcation between law and…
Legal positivism separates law as it is from law as it ought to be, treating law as command while relegating morals to a status that is merely "persuasive and non-obligatory".
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The fundamental principle of legal positivism is to draw a clear cut demarcation between law and morals, between law as it is and law as ought to be wherein the former is essential in the nature of 'command' and latter being merely :
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Legal positivism separates law as it is from law as it ought to be, treating law as command while relegating morals to a status that is merely "persuasive and non-obligatory".
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