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Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series)

This book uses contemporary analytical tools to provide basic accounts of values and principles, community and `common good', justice and human rights, authority, law, the varieties of obligation, unjust law, and even the question of divine authority.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 442 pages

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