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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. None of these
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Explanation

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. Positivism does not look to social, historical, political or moral dimensions of the law.

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