Wikipedia: Philosophy of Law
“commands, backed by threat of sanctions, from a sovereign, to whom people have a habit of obedience”
from John Austin, 1832, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
Wikipedia: Cicero
"We are all servants of the laws in order that we may be free."
Wikipedia: Legal Positivism
"A school of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence, largely developed by nineteenth-century legal thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and John Austin. Principal claims of modern legal positivism are that: there is not any inherent or necessary association between the validity conditions of law and ethics or morality. Laws are rules made, whether deliberately or unintentionally, by human beings."
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