☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Austin on Law

John Austin (1790-1859) defined law as the command of a sovereign backed by sanctions — the classic statement of legal positivism. Law is what the sovereign commands; morality is irrelevant.

Category: Jurisprudence · Source: Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832)
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