Law as Power: Exploring the Dynamics of Legal Authority

Hamza Khan

Abstract

This point of view contends that a law's legality is independent of its social value. For instance, it is clear that autocracies, monarchies, and democracies have generated laws that are good for society. Additionally, they have generated wrongful and unjust laws. The fact that each of these many types of government is founded on power and that having the ability to enforce its rules is essential to each one's survival is what unites them. It is possible to criticise this concept for establishing unjust laws and disregarding tyranny, abuses of authority, and arbitrariness.