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Kaj nam Merklova Stufenbaulehre pove o Kelsnovem pojmu prava. Več je razlogov, zaradi katerih se zdi, da Kelsen v svoji teoriji uporablja dva nasprotujoča si pojma prava, od katerih se prvi zanaša na prisilo, drugi pa odraža postopek ustvarjanja prava. A to ni tako, saj sta oba pojma dejansko združena v enotnem pojmu prava. Tako smo soočeni z dvema vidikoma, združenima v enem samem pojmu prava, ki odraža tako postopek kot prisilo. Pri takšnem pristopu sta Stufenbaulehre in konceptualni aparat, ki ga je mogoče potegniti iz nje, ključna za naše razumevanje Kelsnovega pojma prava.

For many reasons, it seems that Kelsen’s legal theory uses two competing concepts of law, one turning on coercion, the later concept reflecting the process of law creation. But this is not the case. Actually the two concepts are incorporated into a single concept of law. Here we face with two points of view which are combined in a single concept of law that reflects both process and coercion. In such an enterprise, the Stufenbaulehre and the conceptual machinery that can be drawn from it is central to our understanding of Kelsen’s concept of law.