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    A rule that participates in such a scheme acquires the mo... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Purely positive law that is legally valid is presumptively and defeasibly morally valid and binding.

    A rule that participates in such a scheme acquires the moral form or meaning of legal obligatoriness.

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    That is to say: the concretized rule is (morally as well as legally) normative because such normativity is (presumptively and defeasibly) entailed by the (moral) principle that the common good (whose fundamental content is given by the foundational principles of practical reason: 1.1) requires that authoritative institutions take action to specify, apply and enforce some rules on the relevant matters. Social facts make a positive legal rule a reason for action because the desirability of authori

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