Topic > Essay on Legal Positivism - 1146

Hart's position is that there is no necessary connection between a particular law and the morality of a society. As such, a law will not divide citizens on any particular issue, but will embrace the belief that all are equal before the law. In the Obergefell decision (2015), Chief Justice Roberts' dissenting opinion supports this legal positivist belief that a decision made and applied by the court sends a message of substantive truth, without any recognition or legitimacy granted to different worldviews (Obergefell , 135 S. Ct. at 2525-26 (Roberts, CJ.,