The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.19
The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.19
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c16.s1.t3.19
The modern theory of law in Europe may be said to have started in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with Bodin and Grotius’s analysis of sovereignty. It has since become classical through the handiwork of Austin,² the father of analytical jurisprudence. According to this view, law is the command of the sovereign.