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Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart. IV SOVEREIGN AND SUBJECT IN criticizing the simple model of law as coercive orders we have so far raised no questions concerning the ' sovereign ' person or persons whose general orders constitute ...
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart. IV SOVEREIGN AND SUBJECT IN criticizing the simple model of law as coercive orders we have so far raised no questions concerning the ' sovereign ' person or persons whose general orders constitute ...
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... sovereign . If he is sovereign he does not obey any other legislator and hence there can be no legal limits on his legislative power . The importance of the theory does not of course lie in these definitions and their simple necessary ...
... sovereign . If he is sovereign he does not obey any other legislator and hence there can be no legal limits on his legislative power . The importance of the theory does not of course lie in these definitions and their simple necessary ...
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... sovereign person is not identifiable independently of the rules , we cannot represent the rules in this way as merely the terms or conditions under which the society habitually obeys the sovereign . The rules are constitutive of the ...
... sovereign person is not identifiable independently of the rules , we cannot represent the rules in this way as merely the terms or conditions under which the society habitually obeys the sovereign . The rules are constitutive of the ...
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PERSISTENT QUESTIONS | 1 |
LAWS COMMANDS AND ORDERS | 18 |
THE VARIETY OF LAWS | 26 |
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