When this type of moral relativism is applied to the law it is called "legal positivism." This "legal positivism" is characterized by the following points:
- There are no God given standards of law and if perchance there might be they are not relevant in a modern legal system.
- Since God does not give us law or rights the author must be man (government) and what it gives it can also take away or change in any manner it wishes. The state is therefore the highest human authority.
- Since all of the elite know that both man and society evolve, law and its interpretation must also evolve;so no solid framework on which society can be sure that will not change exists and the whim of man or the state is final.
- Judges through their decisions on evolutionary law control the system.
- The study of judges (men/women) and not original foundations of the legal system becomes the study of law. In other words we go from a country of LAW to a country of MEN/WOMEN.
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