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en-wikipedia-org-8003		John Austin (legal philosopher) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1586	267	64	John Austin (legal philosopher) Wikipedia John Austin (legal philosopher) John Austin (3 March 1790 – 1 December 1859) was an English legal theorist, who influenced British and American law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism.[1] Austin opposed traditional approaches of "natural law", arguing against any need for connections between law and morality. To do this, he believed it was necessary to purge human law of all moralistic notions and to define key legal concepts in strictly empirical terms. Drawing heavily on the thought of Jeremy Bentham, Austin was the first legal thinker to work out a fully developed positivistic theory of law. More precisely, laws are general commands issued by a sovereign to members of an independent political society, and backed up by credible threats of punishment or other adverse consequences ("sanctions") in the event of non-compliance. Quotations related to John Austin (legal philosopher) at Wikiquote Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Austin_(legal_philosopher)&oldid=995880946" Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8003.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8003.txt