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Frederick Schauer thinks that force and coercion are not given their due in contemporary philosophy of law. I agree with him that force and coercion play a big role in our legal systems. Nevertheless I think that (1) coercion and force are in an important sense secondary or supplementary to the law’s claimed authority, that (2) even if there is a significant amount of coercion and force, there is also a significant amount of coordination and consensus; giving coercion and force their due should not blind us to these other things.
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Morris, C. W. (2016). Forceful Law. In Law and Philosophy Library (Vol. 117, pp. 97–106). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33987-0_6
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