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''A system of coercion imposing norms which are laid down by human acts in accordance with a constitution the validity of which is pre-supposed if it is on the whole efficacious''.
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Q: ''A system of coercion imposing norms which are laid down by human acts in accordance with a constitution the validity of which is pre-supposed if it is on the whole efficacious''. Outline the theory from which this definition of law emerged. Answer: 1. INTRODUCTION * The quotation is, in fact, a definition of stated in Kelsen's General Theory of State and Law. The reasoning from which the definition stems in his celebrated 'pure theory of law' formulated first in 1911 and revised in its final form in 1964. It is, above all, a theory of positive law, concerned exclusively with the process of defining its subject matter with as much accuracy as is possible. Kelsen advances it as a general theory and not as an interpretation of specific legal norms, although it is intended to offer a 'theory of interpretation' it is designed so as to 'know and describe its...
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