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    Supports→Sound and legitimate adjudication under natural law theory requires prioritizing social-fact sourced law and setting it aside only when it is too iniquitous to apply.

    Natural law theories hold that conscientious attention to social-fact sources and pedigreed rules takes priority in adjudication.

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    Does this amount to acknowledging that natural law theory is significantly less concerned than contemporary legal positivist theories to establish the precise boundaries and content of the social-fact sourced (posited, purely positive) law of our community? Not really. For (i) contemporary legal positivist theories have abandoned the thesis of “classical” legal positivists such as Bentham that judges and citizens alike should (as a matter of political-moral obligation) comply with the positive l

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