Law And Morality: Relationship Including Critical Analysis

Manglam Srivastava, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Introduction

To understand the relationship between Law and Morality, it is first necessary to understand what the terms "Law" and "Morality" mean. Law is not something that can be read and taken literally. The school of natural law interpreted law in relation to morality by using the term morality. It focused on what should be the rule rather than what is currently the law. They argued that law should be interpreted in terms of faith, morality, liberty, justice, and conscience, rather than merely in terms of the law. However, positivism characterised law as stressing that it is only subject to our own experiences. There is no connection between morality and the law. The law is the coming of the Sovereign that can be enforced through punishment