gerström identifies the power of the state with the legal order, of which the former could not exist without the latter: To argue that the law is conceived as a being system of rules is an indisputable tautology. Hägerström nevertheless argues that the law expresses the idea that if a system of acts are implemented in reality, then the corollary must be that the law is to be understood positively - for only those acts of the judiciary that can be inferred to ensue can constitute a real rule of law.184This is how law must be understood in order to be an intelligible idea, rather than being understood as a system of commands and duties whose violation is sanctioned, which according to Hägerström is why the idea of illegality (Swedish: rättsstridighet) has been introduced when discussing violations of commands and duties.185 However, once the unscientific term illegality is removed from the legal terminology, it follows naturally that law in reality is to be understood as being made up of a system of rules of conduct addressed to the organs of state.186 In conclusion, Hägerström una ca l l f o r s c i e n t i f i c p u r i t y 349 “Die staatliche Macht im Sinne einer rein faktischen Macht lässt sich, wenn sie rechtlich geregelt ist, auf ein faktischim ganzen aufrechterhaltenes System von Regeln für Zwangsübung innerhalb eines gewissen Landesgebietes zurückführen. In den Regeln selbst bestimmte Personen, sog. Staatsorgane, handeln faktisch im allgemeinen denselben gemäss.”182 3. 6 . 1 [3. 1] pos i t ive law: “is only a system of rules for the so-called organs of the state - themselves defined in the rules.”183 182 Ibid. 183 Hägerström, “Hägerström.”; “The Philosophy of Axel Hägerström.” 184 Hägerström,“Stat och statsformer (1921),” p. 209. Here Hägertröm, without any explanation, changes perspective, from lower organs of state to higher organs of state. See also Hägerström, “Stat och statsformer (1921),” pp. 103-207. Cf. Hägerström, Magistratische Ius, pp. 1-5. 185 Hägerström, “Stat och statsformer (1921),” p. 209. 186 Cf., e.g., Hägerström, Objektiva rättens begrepp, pp. 138-154; “The Notion of Law,” pp. 222-240.
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