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If laws be indeed commands, the commands of a determinate person or body of persons, it ought to be possible to discover this determinate source of authority without much curious research.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “If laws be indeed commands, the commands of a determinate person or body of persons, it ought to be possible to discover…”
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Wilson argues that the source of legal authority should be identifiable without extensive investigation.
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