Just as there was a curious affinity that kept [Thomas] Mann's American readers faithful to him even when his writing was most "difficult". .. so we can detect in other realms of thought what the Germans call Wahlverwandtschaften. Some styles of thinking prospered, and others withered or barely held their own in the new American setting.-H. Stuart Hughes, The Sea Change 1 Wer keine Heimat mehr hat, dem wird wohl gar das Schreiben zum Wohnen.
Legal monism is the view that there is only one legal system. Hans Kelsen defended a particularly strong version of that view. Kelsen did not simply hold that there is only one legal system, as a matter of fact. He argued, rather, that it is impossible for a legal science to recognize the existence of more than one legal system. Legalscientifi c cognition, as a form of normative cognition , must assume, according to Kelsen, that no two valid legal norms confl ict, ie, that there are no two legal norms that make incompatible demands on the behavior of one and the same agent. And the absence or at least the resolvability of such confl ict between legal norms can be assured, Kelsen argued, only if all legal norms that exist are understood as belonging to one and the same legal system. Legal pluralism , in other words, is deemed to be juristically inconceivable (
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