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Section II. On Jurisdiction Insofar as It Imports Legislative Power

105.

I. Legislative power exists among human beings. For, as was proved above, positive laws are necessary in human society (n. 88). But law cannot proceed except from one who has power over others.1

II. Legislative power belongs both to the Church and to the civil State. We shall speak of each.

1 Cf. encyclical of Leo XIII, Libertas.

The Power of Jurisdiction and of Making Laws

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