The Code of Hammurabi Although the boundaries of law affect our lives on a daily basis, and our own society continually uses legal coercion as a means to modify human behavior, the very notion of such binding human guidelines is testament to the evolution of secular thought. The evolution of “legal positivism,” which can be defined as tangible procedural law, created by man, codified and conventional, has emerged with mankind's ability to distinguish between secular and divine authority. To understand the differences between secular and divine law, we must first realize the different species of law that have bound man throughout history. These are, specifically, divine law, natural law and human law. The concept of divine law; higher law extolled through religious belief and doctrine, as I will explain, characterized the legal authority of ....

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