[JLC-110 FA2] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (98 pages long)
1 Dec 2016
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In the essay, the people remain faithful to the authority of the king despite the fact that there was no valid legal system. Main point of the text is that principles are distinct from rules and are essential to describing categories of law. A legal theory must address whether past political decisions justify retroactive coercion. Dworkin describes nominalists as people who think that laws are a set of timeless rules that are discovered by judges. Mechanical jurisprudence is a view of legal decisions where the facts of a case and established legal rules can only result in one legal outcome. Dworkin thinks positivism is somewhat similar to nominalism because it partially rests on the notion of mechanical jurisprudence. Positivist portray their school of thought as new and fresh. Dworkin recognizes that most people believe that the law exist and that there are genuine legal obligations that we are subject to.
