Kuçuradi, İoannaHimma, Kenneth Einar2024-07-122024-07-122011Himma, K. E. (2011). Understanding the relationship between the U.S. constitution and the conventional rule of recognition. Hukuk Felsefesini Yeniden Düşünmek: Hukuk Teorileri, İnsan Hakları ve Anayasalar. (s. 113-142). İstanbul: Maltepe Üniversitesi.978-975-6760-41-3https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/4997Legal theorists specializing in constitutional theory have tended to regard positivism and other conceptual theories as irrelevant; the idea is that a theory of the concept oflaw cannot tell us anything that helps to solve substantive issues of constitutional theory. There is something to this complaint. A theory of the concept of law merely fleshes out the metaphysical implications of the social commitments governing use of the concept-term "law" - and tells us how to distinguishes something that is law from something that is not. But knowing how to do this does not seem to help answer the normative questions typically asked by constitutional theorists: it will not help answerthe question of how the constitution is properly interpreted orthe question of who should decide what the constitution means. About all an analysis of a concept can tell you is how to identify the things to which the concept applies, but our pre-theoretic understanding of the toncept is usually, by itself, enough to do this. Judges and lawyers do this all the time without having a worked out conceptual theory of law...enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUnderstanding the relationshipU.S. ConstitutionConventional rule of recognitionLegal theoristsA theory of the concept of lawThe concept of Validity CrileriaConceptual foundations of positivismBook142113