Since then, the question has frequently emerged whether or not civil disobedience was justified. ... A dissident might trust that their cause is just and that their disobedience is ethically allowable, however they may be mixed up either about the actualities or about their standards. ... New Mexico State University stated that, "There are two natural law hypotheses around two distinct things: i) a natural law theory of ethical quality, or what's good and bad, and ii) a natural law theory of positive law, or what's lawful and unlawful.... Legitimate positivism asserts that ii) ...

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