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    Natural law requires that unjust positive law lacks legal... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Natural law theory of law is approximated by Dworkin's account of law and adjudication, both in frontier cases like Nuremberg and in ordinary legal reasoning.

    Natural law requires that unjust positive law lacks legal validity as such; Dworkin never endorses this strong invalidity thesis for wicked law.

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    • 1.Dworkin's interpretivism requires law to be evaluated through moral integrity, not categorical invalidity thresholds.
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    • 2.Dworkin distinguishes legal validity from moral legitimacy, allowing wicked laws to retain binding force despite injustice.
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    • 3.Strong invalidity thesis entails dangerous indeterminacy about which laws citizens may disobey, which Dworkin rejects.
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    • 1.Dworkin's principle of 'law as integrity' may implicitly undermine validity of laws deeply inconsistent with justice.
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    • 2.The claim conflates Dworkin's refusal to use 'invalidity' language with acceptance of wicked laws' full legal force.
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    • 3.Natural law theorists argue Dworkin's position pragmatically concedes their core point: unjust law lacks moral authority.
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