legal positivism

noun

1. another name for positivism

Example Sentences

Dworkin's writing launches a frontal attack on the two concepts, utilitarianism and legal positivism, that have dominated Anglo-American jurisprudence in the 20th century.

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Legal positivism claims that individuals possess only those rights that have been granted by man-made law.

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To Dworkin, legal positivism is much too narrow, and he faults utilitarianism because it can be used by a democracy to justify disregarding minority rights, since minorities, by definition, are not "the greatest number."

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