5.1 An Overview of Legal Powers
This overview of legal powers describes their nature, their relationship to other forms of power, and how they are analysed in this book.
5.1.1 The Scope of the Law
a positivist definition of law as a published body of enforceable rules
5.1.2 Key Characteristics of the Law
laws are made by formally appointed bodies, they apply to everyone in a territory, and they are enduring
5.1.3 Relationships of Legal Powers
how the law operates, with authority flowing between the Executive and the separate legal institutions
5.1.4 Law as Coercive Morality
laws enforce morality with coercion by the State
5.1.5 Classification of Legal Powers
describing the chapter segments, supporting analysis of how the law can protect everyone equally