Fuller makes a statement that the humanity with moral life would not be exhausted seemingly even though natural laws binds upon any of the most essential human actions apart from. What leads Fuller to describe those subjects as shown above as external morality of law? Before determining how’s Fuller natural law theory work, one have to make a brief summary of the Hart and Fuller debate to understand the position of them. Then, examine the distinction between the law’s internal and external law critically. It is necessary to consider the concept of the both moralities, how’s the two moralities work in legal system and whether Fuller has clarified them.
Debate between Hart and Fuller
Havard Law Review 1958 publishes the Hart-Fuller …show more content…
Indeed, the question focuses on the internal and external morality of law. The “internal morality” was fundamentally referring to procedure of making law in justice where the lawmaker will decide the rule of substantive law to apply to the specific case while the “external morality” considers the content of substantive where the arbiter will apply it to reach his decision. He has made an attempt to distinguish both the internal and external morality rule by stating when the “procedural” rule is concerned, that means such rule is to construct and guide human conduct provided that it remain its implication, but not with the substantive goals of legal …show more content…
As discussed, the most favorable way to distinguish the two moralities is by referring the “internal morality” as procedural NL. Importantly, the uncomplicated form of Fuller’s argument to pursue a moral aims in a legal system is where a social framework has to be stable for the citizens to obey within its act and such a framework should exist moral behavior that is accurately guiding the legislators, judges and lawyers’ works. Hence, the distinction between the two moralities would not affect his position, as the existence of moral status should have