“The commands which God has revealed we must gather from the terms wherein they are promulg[ate]d. The command which he has not revealed, we must construe by the principle of utility”
John Austin (1790 – 1859)
(Lectures on Jurisprudence, or The Philosophy
of Positive Law, Lecture IV, p. 160)

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