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    It is not the case that This distinction means Dworkin's 'law as integrity' is a sophisticated positivism about particular legal systems, not natural law theory.

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    • 1.Integrity requires judges to interpret law through best moral principles, making it fundamentally normative-ethical theory.
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    • 2.Dworkin explicitly denies positivism's fact/value separation; he insists law requires moral judgment, distinguishing him from positivists.
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    • 3.Integrity's community-based moral reading resembles natural law's appeal to higher principles, not positivism's descriptive neutrality.
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    • 1.Dworkin grounds law in actual legal system practices and conventions, not transcendent moral truths, which defines positivism.
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    • 2.Integrity as 'fit with existing law' prioritizes coherence within a specific system over universal moral principles.
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    • 3.Dworkin rejects natural law's claim that unjust laws aren't truly law, instead evaluating legitimacy within each system.
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