Martin P Golding, William A
Edmundson,
The Blackwell
Guide to the Philosophy of Law
and Legal Theory
(Wiley-
Blackwell Publishers, 2004) 30.
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Concerns a step further: to exclude not only practical and theoretical disquisitions about how governments should be
organised, but also to exclude more academic discussions about the history or sociology of the law, and the like
Legal positivism originated from a few lines stated in 1832 by Austin the person often seen as the founder of legal
positivism
Leslie Green, 'Positivism and
Conventionalism' (1999) 12(1)
Canadian Journal of Law and
Jurisprudence
35, 36.
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That provides the sole condition under which any law can be interpreted as validly binding. We must, he thought,
presuppose
that the ultimate orders, the first constitution, are binding and we must therefore presuppose a basic norm
If there is in a given group general conformity to a standard of behaviour, if deviation from that standard is criticized, if that
criticism is regarded as appropriate, and if people use the norm to guide and appraise their own behaviour or that of others
Uta Bindreiter,
Why
Grundnorm?: A Treatise on the
Implications of Kelsen's
Doctrine
(Springer, 2003
rd
ed,
2002) 15.
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The term "basic norm" (
Grundnorm
) refers to the source of the validity of positive law