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    Sound and legitimate adjudication under natural law theor... — Carmelics
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    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.

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    • 1.Natural law theories hold that conscientious attention to social-fact sources and pedigreed rules takes priority in adjudication.
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    • 2.Natural law theories permit departure from posited law only to the extent that such law is too iniquitous to be applied.
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    • 3.Any new rule formed after departing from iniquitous law must cohere as far as possible with the remaining non-iniquitous doctrines and principles of the legal system.
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    • 1.Lon Fuller argued that law possesses an internal morality of procedural principles whose violation renders putative law not merely iniquitous but legally null from the outset.
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    • 2.If procedurally defective enactments fail to constitute law at all, then the claim's framework of 'setting aside' posited law mischaracterizes the adjudicative task as one of exception rather than legal identification.
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    • 3.Sound adjudication therefore requires first determining what counts as law via moral criteria, not prioritizing social-fact sources and carving out narrow exceptions for extreme iniquity.
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    • 1.Ronald Dworkin's interpretivism holds that legal principles with moral weight are already part of law, not external correctives applied when posited rules fail.
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    • 2.The claim's binary between social-fact sourced law and exceptional departure reproduces the positivist framework that natural law theory, on Dworkin's reading, should fundamentally reject.
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    • 3.Adjudication that treats moral reasoning as a residual override rather than constitutive of legal interpretation misrepresents how law's normative force actually operates in hard cases.
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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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