Enligt H.L.A. Hart, i ”Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals”, publicerad i Harvard Law Review, innefattar den rättspositivism som Jeremy Bentham och John Austin formulerade följande två huvudpunkter:

[F]irst, in the absence of an expressed constitutional or legal provision, it could not follow from the mere fact that a rule violated standards of morality that it was not a rule of law; and, conversely, it could not follow from the mere fact that a rule was morally desirable that it was a rule of law.

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Se även Matthew Kramers bok In Defense of Legal Positivism samt min artikel ”Legal Positivism and Property Rights”.