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Legal Positivism
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Which of the following is a key tenet of legal positivism?
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The law is a set of rules created and enforced by the state.
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Legal positivism holds that the law is a set of rules created and enforced by the state, and that the validity of a law is determined solely by its formal characteristics, such as its enactment by a legitimate authority.