morality ao1

Mortality

Law- command from sovereign e.g monarch or parliament back by threat if not followed - Austin

Morals

Beliefs, value, principle - Harris

Natural law

Law is based on universal moral ‘good’ which originally came from religion- Thomas aquintas rules should be followed by the bible

Legal positivism

Law is made by the right authority- parliament

HLA hart

Believed law and morality are separate

Primary and secondary rules

Durkeim

Morality is a system of rules for conduct

Everyone follows different ideas of morality due to different religions and ethnic groups e.g arranged marriages

Hart devlin debate

Devlin- society depends on a ‘common’ morality and that law should interfere with peoples private life where a reasonable man should react with disgust- r v brown- held that sadomaschatic activities are immoral

Hart- law shouldn’t interfere with people’s private life, only interfere where harm is to others- harm principle