John Austin (legal philosopher): Politics

John Austin (legal philosopher) was legal philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on politics.

John Austin (legal philosopher): 12 quotes0 likes

“Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set, directly or circuitously, by a sovereign person or body, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is supreme.”

John Austin (legal philosopher)

Source: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), p. 136-137

“The matter of jurisprudence is positive law: law, simply and strictly so called : or law set by political superiors to political inferiors.”

John Austin (legal philosopher)

Source: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), p. 1; opening line

“To the ignorant and bawling fanatics who stun you with their pother about liberty, political or civil liberty seems to be the principal end for which government ought to exist. But the final cause or purpose for which government ought to exist, is the furtherance of the common weal to the greatest possible extent.”

John Austin (legal philosopher)

Source: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), p. 224