... deny that there is anything other than a contingent connection between law and morality, whilst legal idealists will be committed to the view that there is a conceptually necessary connection between law and morality. In the limited present sense of 'law', an answer to questions of separation must be justified in law because the law consists of the rules that regulate our lives. I believe that by subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules indicates the necessity of a social order that must have both moral and legal justifications. Moral principles are located within practical reason and provide a reason why a course of action ought or ought not to be followed. It can be argued that whether or not a proposition is labelled 'moral' is irrelevant: if it aims to be justificatory, action-guiding, other-addressing, other-regarding and categorical, then it is a moral proposition. Given that law is so ...

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