The Invisible Origins of Legal Positivism : a Re-Reading of a Tradition /

Conklin's thesis is that the tradition of modern legal positivism, beginning with Thomas Hobbes, postulated different senses of the invisible as the authorising origin of humanly posited laws. Conklin re-reads the tradition by privileging how the canons share a particular understanding of legal...

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Main Author:	Conklin, William E.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
Series:	Law and philosophy library ; 52.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Ethics. Philosophy of law. Political science > Philosophy. Constitutional law. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book