An advocate of this theory theorized that eight principles including “promulgation” and “congruence” are inherent in its central activity. That advocate of this theory included the nonsense word “civilmoign” in a paper that he set in the year 4300 in the country of Newgarth. An advocate of this theory defended the punishment of a Nazi-era “grudge informer” in a 1958 debate and imagined four men who resorted to cannibalism to avoid starvation in “The Case of the Speluncean Explorers.” (*) Lon Fuller, who developed a procedural form of this theory, criticized H. L. A. Hart and the rival positivist theory. Aquinas’ form of this theory is contrasted with eternal, divine, and human counterparts. For 10 points, what theory holds that law should be grounded in universal moral principles discoverable by reason? ■END■
ANSWER: natural law theory [or legal naturalism; accept lex naturalis or the law of nature; prompt on naturalism or procedural naturalism by asking “in what field?”; prompt on natural rights theory]
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