Analytical legal positivism is an influential school of legal theory that views law as commands from the state. Key features include treating law as distinct from morality, viewing laws as social facts emanating from sovereign authorities, and emphasizing legislation as the source of law. Major exponents were Jeremy Bentham, who saw law as commands from the sovereign across different aspects, and John Austin, who defined law as commands from a political superior in his influential work The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. While influential, their theories were also subject to criticism regarding abstract rationalism and the relationship between individuals and communities.