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    It is not the case that Legal validity requires more than institutional enactment; it requires minimal conformity with moral principles (Fuller's inner morality of law).

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    • 1.Unjust laws remain legally binding and enforceable; their injustice is a separate moral critique that doesn't affect their legal validity or bindingness.
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    • 2.Fuller's principles describe how laws operate effectively, not necessary conditions for validity—a clear but immoral law remains valid law.
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    • 3.Merging legality with morality grants judges and citizens dangerous license to reject laws they deem insufficiently moral, destabilizing rule of law.
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    • 1.Laws that systematically violate basic fairness (retroactive punishment, arbitrary enforcement) undermine their own internal coherence and citizen compliance.
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    • 2.Legal systems claiming authority must justify that authority; pure positivism offers no principled basis to distinguish valid law from mere coercive command.
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    • 3.Fuller's eight principles (generality, publicity, clarity, consistency) are functional requirements for law itself, not external moral impositions on it.
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