… At the highest jurisprudential level, an integralist vision of the legal order gives way to a legalist or positivist vision. For legalists, legislation is the paradigmatic form of law. In this view, granting exceptions for conscientious objection or other religiously motivated concerns undermines the authority of law, makes individuals and groups a law unto themselves, and pulverizes law into anarchy. The alternative is an integralist view in which the legal system includes legislation as adjusted to take constitutional norms into account. So, conscientious objection and religious autonomy are not an exception to a general rule, but instead an integral part of the structure itself. The law is not legislation subject to exceptions, but legislation as contorted by the requirements of constitutional and international human rights law. This integralist view has obvious affinities to the idea that law rests on deeper principles that ground constitutional axiology—principles that the positive norms of constitutions and statutes alone cannot fully capture.