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Question: Which is the least accurate description of legal positivism?

  1. It perceives law as arbitrary and without any logical structure.
  2. It regards morals and law as inseparable.
  3. It espouses the view that there is no necessary connection between morality and law.
  4. It regards a legal order as a closed logical system.
  5. It perceives law as commands.
  6. It regards law as suggestions rather than commands.
  7. It asserts that law is based on personal beliefs and opinions.
  8. It implies that legal decisions are made purely on emotional grounds.
  9. It views law as inherently just and moral.
  10. It suggests that morality is the only basis of law.

Our answer: B. It regards morals and law as inseparable. Source quote machine-checked (at mint)

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Jurisprudence. Identify the LEAST accurate description of legal positivism by testing candidate descriptions against the school's identifying thesis.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Legal Positivism" (first published 2003, substantively revised 2019) -- the social thesis and the separability thesis as the school's identifying commitments. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-positivism/

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