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This document discusses legal positivism and its key proponents. Legal positivism is the theory that law is defined by human authority rather than ethics or morality. It separates law and morality. Important proponents discussed include Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, Hans Kelsen, and Thomas Hobbes. Austin developed the command theory of law which views law as commands backed by sanctions.

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Kyle Almero

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