The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

Author: John Austin

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Title: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

Author: John Austin

Description: The founding text of legal positivism. Austin defines law as the command of a sovereign backed by sanctions and separates the law as it is from the law as it ought to be. First edition, 1832.

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