Sentence examples for validity of law from inspiring English sources

The bill passed by the Icelandic Parliament on Dec. 30 removed some of those conditions, but the president said the matter was not for politicians to decide, as "the nation is the highest judge for the validity of law".

After all, the basic norm is a presupposition that is logically required to render the validity of law intelligible.

These limitations on the use of preferences over law enforcement raises questions about the robustness and validity of law enforcement models.

No legal positivist argues that the systemic validity of law establishes its moral validity, i.e. that it should be obeyed by subjects or applied by judges.

A positivist account of the existence and content of law, along any of the above lines, offers a theory of the validity of law in one of the two main senses of that term (see Harris, pp. 107-111).

Anarchism is understood here precisely as a rejection of the normative validity of law; however, even the anarchist can make an argument about what the law in this or that context requires; and when she makes such an argument, she must presuppose the legal point of view, she must argue as if she endorses the basic norm of the relevant legal system.

Instead, it asked for fresh briefing on the validity of laws limiting corporate campaign spending.

The validity of laws that, on their face, breach liberties depends on whether they are necessary and proportionate to achieve a legitimate end.

In 1957, for example, the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union declared that "it is not within the province of the [ACLU] to question the validity of laws aimed at the suppression or elimination of homosexuals".

The simple answer is that what one presupposes here is precisely the normative validity of positive law, namely, the law that is actually practiced by a certain population.

Justice William O. Douglas wrote a dissenting opinion in the case, criticizing the New York law: "If rationality is the measure of the validity of this law, then I can see how modern Anthony Comstocks could make out a case for "protecting' many groups in our society, not merely children".