Relationship Between Law And Morality

Question 1

Both are concerned with

Answer 1

Setting standards to govern behaviour and the way people are supposed to behave.
Distinguishing between right and wrong.

Question 2

Natural law

Answer 2

Law is based on higher moral authority so law is based on morals
Aquinas - the law must conform to a higher authority to be valid.

Question 3

Legal postivism

Answer 3

The law should be made by recognised legislative power and it doesn’t have to satisfy any higher authority.
Bentham - he believed there is no philosophy or ideology behind the law