Multiple choice

What is positivism?

  1. The approach to the study of law according to which only laws posited by their rightful creators are valid

  2. The approach to the study of law according to which all moral, social or legal norms are part of law

  3. The approach to the study of law according to which only laws democratically enacted are valid

  4. All of the above

  5. None of these

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Explanation

(1) Positivism studies law in the sense of norms produced by the people who are entitled to create them, irrespective of the democratic nature of the law-making institutions.