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Law
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enforceable (to put) rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and their society.
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Jurisprudence
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involves learning about different schools of jurisprudential thought and discovering how the approaches to law characteristic of each school can affect judicial decision making.
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Natural Law
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denotes (sign of) a system of moral and ethical principles that are inherent (something as a permanent) in human nature and that people can discover through the use of their natural intelligence, or reason.
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Positive Law or National Law
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the written law of a given society at a particular point in time.
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Positivist School
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believe that there can be no higher law than a nation's positive law. According to the positivist school, there is no such thing as "natural rights". Rather, human rights exist solely because of laws.
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