From Hobbes to the present day considerable attention has been paid by philosophers to this subject. So little,however, was known of its history until recently, that Priestley claims for Locke the honour of having first observed this great mental process, and Hume takes to himself the credit of having first generalized its laws,' which, according to him, are resemblance, contiguity in time or p...

With the introduction, by John Austin, of the command theory of law,1 a certain distinction among theories of law entered the jurisprudential landscape: the distinction between theories that seek to characterize obedience to law in terms of external motivations, such as sanctions for noncompliance, and those that characterize obedience to law in terms of internal motivations, such as a moral co...