Law is conceived by Lasswell and McDougal as a form of the power value and described as "the sum of the power decisions in a community."
拉斯·威尔与麦道格强调法律作为权利价值的一种形式，可以描述为社会权利决定的总数。
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Lasswell and McDougal propose, therefore, that the technical-doctrinal approach to law, although it should not be entirely discarded, ought largely to be supplanted by a "policy" approach.