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Portions of this essay were presented at Yale Law School as part of the program for the 7th Annual Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference. I am indebted to the following persons for helpful criticisms, comments, questions, and suggestions: Larry Alexander, Jules Coleman, Anthony Duff, John Gardner, Leslie Green, Mark Greenberg, Douglas Husak, Barbara B. Levenbrook, David Lyons, Christopher Morris, Gerald Postema, Scott Shapiro, Roger Shiner, Nicos Stavropoulos, Jeremy Waldron, and Wilfrid Waluchow. I am also indebted to subsequent correspondence with Brian Bix, Leslie Green, Stephen Perry, and Joseph Raz. I am also grateful to Ronald Moore, Laurence BonJour, Arthur Fine, Marc Lange, and Jean Roberts for their comments on a much earlier version of this paper. I am especially indebted to Matthew Kramer for his detailed and insightful comments on an earlier version of this essay and for a particularly compelling criticism that forced me to rethink my initial approach to the issues.
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Himma, K.E. Final Authority To Bind With Moral Mistakes: On The Explanatory Potential Of Inclusive Legal Positivism. Law Philos 24, 1–45 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-003-8733-6
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