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    Natural law is rightly called law — Carmelics
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    Natural law is rightly called law

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    • 1.A law must be founded on the will of a superior
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    • 2.A law must perform the function of establishing rules of behavior
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    • 3.A law must be binding on humans, since there is a duty of compliance owed to the superior authority that institutes the laws
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    • 1.Law requires an institutional mechanism of enforcement by a recognized authority, not merely rational discoverability.
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    • 2.Natural law lacks any consistent enforcement mechanism in the state of nature, rendering it a moral principle rather than genuine law.
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    • 3.Hobbes demonstrated that without a sovereign to enforce commands, obligations remain aspirational and cannot constitute binding law.
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    • 1.H.L.A. Hart's separability thesis establishes that legal validity is determined by social facts, not moral content or divine will.
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    • 2.A norm's status as 'law' depends on its recognition within a rule of recognition, which natural law categorically lacks.
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    English law treats Parliament as having law-making authority.82%The law is not a mere act of power80%If law is understood as a reason or purported reason for action, then ...79%Justice is the very point of having and respecting law at all77%

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    In the Essays on the Law of Nature, Locke writes that “all the requisites of a law are found in natural law” (Locke 1663–4, 82). But, what, for Locke, is required for something to be a law? Locke takes stock of what constitutes law in order to establish the legalistic framework for morality: First, law must be founded on the will of a superior. Second, it must perform the function of establishing rules of behavior. Third, it must be binding on humans, since there is a duty of compliance owed to
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    Natural law satisfies all three of these conditions
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