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Do we have an obligation to obey the law?

Every citizen has a prima facie moral oligation to obey


the law of a reasonably just state.

IS this true?

Raz wants to challenge this idea of the instrumentalist


but there is also those who refute this idea stating

no obligation to obey on the ground that no state can be just.

even in a just state, if there can be such, there is no obligation


to obey the law.

Raz contends, if there is no general obligation to obey, then the


law does not have general authority, for to have authority is to
have a right to rule to those who are subject to it. and a right
to rule entails a duty to obey.

Govt without Authority

lets go to the idea of the premise of the instrumentalist

redundant

legal obligation

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