1. Coleman, The Practice of Principle, supra note 44, at 116.
2. For an extremely useful account of the mentality of the Common Law tradition, see Gerald J. Postema, Bentham and the Common Law Tradition (1986). His account of the common law mentality has recently been complemented by the following articles: Gerald Postema, Classical Common Law Jurisprudence (Part 1), 2 Oxford Univ. L.J. 155 (2003)
3. Postema Gerald , Classical Common Law Jurisprudence (Part 2), 3 Oxford Univ. L.J. 1 (2003).
4. Coleman, The Practice of Principle, supra note 44, at 80.
5. It is, of course, possible to argue, from the perspective of the first reading, that legal positivism needs to reject a second reading that is inconsistent with the first.