This paper defends the explanatory priority for the general descriptive theory of law of an investigation into law’s normative point over an investigation of law’s other central features. The paper begins by clarifying the normative priority thesis and implications of the assertion that law has a normative point. It then develops, in Section II, two arguments in favour of the priority thesis. Section III demonstrates the explanatory power of the law’s normative point priority thesis by reference to the related, but derivative, problem of the normativity of legal directives.

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法律规范点

本文捍卫对法律规范点的调查的一般法律描述理论的解释优先于对法律其他中心特征的调查。本文首先阐明了规范性优先论点以及法律具有规范性观点这一主张的含义。然后，在第二部分中，它提出了支持优先论点的两个论点。第三节通过引用相关但衍生的法律指令规范性问题，论证了法律规范性点优先论点的解释力。