Although there are many justifications for why we should obey the law but these concepts are the strongest justifications, safe to say that the subjects of any legitimate state have an obligation to at obey their governing bodies. Some legal philosophers argue that there a general moral obligation to obey the law- that the fact that a law demands certain behaviour should be morally important to … ]*-�����}�C6�ĝ��rO'��P�?NU4 hI3�)��_ �z �2r��Օ�V�s�h �5j�+ͥG/�('&����'�k?>o������\7�t���^�o�N��(-�����ⶊ��3@�M��t���L�>X���u��7�-��n� Fy�� endstream endobj 400 0 obj <> stream provided, of course, that they consider their state to be just. %PDF-1.6 %���� 382 0 obj << /Linearized 1.0 /L 1313969 /H [ 48682 785 ] /O 386 /E 49467 /N 21 /T 1306284 /P 0 >> endobj xref 382 25 0000000015 00000 n The benefits that may result in political obligations can include security, welfare and infrastructure. The benefit theory for obligation has many criticisms besides the idea that “most citizens never ask for them” and I am going evaluate this theory alongside what I argue to be the reason, In this essay I will argue that moral obligation is like legal obligation to some extent, in that they share certain features, in particular notions of blame and responsibility. United States to do this. 0000002660 00000 n Consider the parallel with a promise : I am under a moral obligation to return a borrowed book but that obligation can be overriden by the more important moral obligation to help a dying person. To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws and support the institutions of one’s political community. Therefore, the interesting question about our obligation vis-i-vis the law is not "Do individual citizens ever have specific prima 3. "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. 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The discussion of moral obligation to obey the law, however, raises difficult questions met by various arguments. the position that there is a prima facie moral obligation to obey law, some. 0000008067 00000 n ���Ke�8ޛ%Rg�x+'��@�g� Accepting this suggest that there is in almost every instance a moral obligation to obey the law. My account of prima facie obli- I have shown in this essay, that if we use Wolff’s multi-principle approach, we can get a meaningful obligation to obey the law as citizens. In simple terms, an obligation can be seen as a sort of binding reason, Samuel Pufendorf argues that morality is the product of God 's will primarily, and human will secondly, and is directed at the peaceful organization of humanity. 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Smith questions the existence of a “prima facie obligation to obey the law” which is the case if “a person A [has] to do an act X if, and only if, there is a moral reason for S to do X which is such that, unless he has moral reason not to do X at least as strong as his reason to do X, S’s failure to do X is wrong”. ‘Must we only obey a just law; should we obey a law because it is just to do so; or else can we not obey at all?'. On that point there is almost complete agreement among political philosophers. 0000048682 00000 n 0000003231 00000 n Many political philosophers also think the same that there is a prima facie obligation to obey law However, all laws are not just. The question is: does a citizen have a moral duty to obey the law and if so, why? For citizens and residents, there can be a moral obligation to follow laws that are unenforced or under enforced. Those theorists who find there is no general moral obligation to obey the law do not argue we should never obey the law, nor that there is never any moral reason to do as the law tells us. unconditional, moral obligation to obey the law. When, if ever, do citizens have an obligation to obey the law? Since an individual gets most of its benefit and right from the state, therefore it should obey law for the welfare of state. In this, “Political Obligation Cannot be grounded in Benefits since Most Citizens Never Ask to Receive Such Benefits” – Discuss I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. The notion of obedience is imperative to the notion of law, and the subject of legal obedience is accepted by virtue of its necessity in the definition of law. This naïve legalistic notion of the duty to obey the law has few, if any, takers. Abstract This Independent Study thesis is divided into five chapters. 0000005472 00000 n Mark Stanford Law Review, May 2003 v55 i5 p1901(19) Do states have a moral obligation to obey international law? Moral reasons, for Hobbes, are laws that are imperative for us to all obey. "E��†C��z(�s�Q4�g�Wi\����O'|�SB�!^���� ���߸2�,tʤS�eʢ��Pj��;JSp��3>X,+ j������#>�/�*����7��T`azv�y���̬h\e �k�ѣ���ҁ��?�C[� ��Cd�袮?WxYF��KX��݄�@gn��̮� If$���D�ζ��) \�DXR�"5 Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey the Law? However, the law has no effects without our obedience, which is based essentially on the authority (the capacity of the law to make us respect it) but also on our culture or our education. In the writings of Honoré, Raz, Smith, Finnis and Bix there are many arguments for and against a general moral obligation to obey. Failure to cohere to these laws would result in serious consequences for greater mankind. • Rather: “Is the moral relation of any government to its citizens such that they have a prima facie obligation to do certain things merely because they are legally required to do so?” (p. 952) There are a number of different possible grounds for political obligation. The distinction between prima facie and absolute obligation was first made by W.D. My definition of law is legal system of rules which a particular country can used to organization the society and defines the rights for obligations of any person. We have a political obligation to obey the law in our society, this belief is backed up by the justifications of fairness, consent, utilitarianism, and morality, but the most compelling arguments found for the justification of why we should obey the law are consent, fairness and morality, Utilitarianism. 0000001808 00000 n 0000002946 00000 n Concerning, “Even if law and morals are closely bound in most systems there are always possibilities they maybe separated.” The remarkable positivist Hart, believes law does not need morality to be law in his so called ‘separation thesis.’ Maintaining law as it is not how it ought to be, positivists are not refusing a relationship. Whether all legal obligations necessarily entail moral obligations depends on how one perceives the nature of the connection between law and morality, if it exists at all. 0000039051 00000 n If it’s ok to refuse to convict for smoking pot because you disagree with drug laws, then it’s ok for a socialist to refuse to convict a thief because the victim was “rich and can afford it”. 0000004815 00000 n June 23, 2019 0 Comment admin However, without an underlying idea of consent in a democratic society, it is arguable that a state of anarchy, in which no laws or rights over property or person could be legitimised, except perhaps through force and oppression could be evident. As a leader of this discussion, Rawls proposes that moral obligation to obey the law is upheld if the system of law is grounded in the principle of fair play. Customary law that develops within incentive structures that promote oppression will tend to be oppressive. 0000003512 00000 n Individuals are born into societies with a complicated set of laws already in place. Since an individual gets most of its benefit and right from the state, therefore it should obey law for the welfare of state. 0000001677 00000 n Individuals do not have the choice to accept or reject the laws of the state, they are simply forced to obey the law or be punished. Is it through birth, or through consent? Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema. Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey the Law Classical natural theory asserted that the validity of a rule necessarily depends on whether it conforms to moral standards because those who do “bind in conscience”. A state expects its citizens to obey law so that it can function in a proper manner. Before one can know whether there is a moral obligation to obey the law, one must know what a moral obligation to obey the law is. On … 0000004436 00000 n I have interpreted Hobbes’ as trying to understand the problem of human obligation, whether or not there are moral reasons for each of us to obey the laws of our country. The theory of political obligation is to have a moral responsibility to obey the laws of the state (Richard and Daivid, 2007). that states can have moral obligations,2 for if they could not, a fortiori they could not have a moral obligation to obey international law. But if states have moral obligations, there is a further question whether citizens and leaders inherit the state's moral obligations (all or some of them). We have obligations to comply with the law because of the effects of breaking those laws. 0000003776 00000 n Only if one knows what it is can one know whether an argument for it succeeds. Do we have a political obligation to obey the law? Many political philosophers also think the same that there is a prima facie obligation to obey law However, all laws are not just. with a view to the development the society and the state also can preservation of security and stability of the state. Social contract theory is a popular approach to justifying the moral obligation to follow the law. For example, I might have a legal obligation to pay tax in a deeply corrupt state, but not necessarily a moral obligation to do so. x��Y�n�6}߯У��;��"^{� -�6���$.�u����i9��E��aQ��ϙ���������cbn�n"(�� �i�=��R�O�����͛�-���ko�^l��U-�? One can have a moral obligation to obey the law yet more important countervailing moral obligations may require one not to obey the law. Without laws, a society would quickly crumble into disorder and chaos, unless, all cost. To have political obligation is to have a duty to obey the laws of one’s country or state. Similarly, if our family requires us to provide for them, then you have an obligation to comply with the law because we need to stay out of prison and to provide for our families. Having an obligation to obey the law requires that you have an obligation to obey the law because it's the law. Walzer says that there is no 'conventional wisdom' on the subject. Hart's main criticism of predictive theory is that it defines the internal aspect of obligation out of existence. 0000001786 00000 n Moral responsibility: The personal obligations people feel based on their beliefs about what is right and wrong. So, Hobbes indicates that human obligation is just political obligation and offers a rational justification for an absolute sovereign - his solution. citizen has a prima facie moral obligation to obey the law of a reasonably just state. Speaking of my own life here in the US, it's a bit different. I don't think I have any moral obligation to obey the laws imposed on me and break minor laws constantly. Definitions aside, this leaves us with the question of whether or not we do, after all, have an obligation to obey the law. 0000005821 00000 n ��+sh�AKN�i�Ȯ����yVÖ_��Ѩ�����yR3�,�P���Vq!�C$�Ӥ6�~\n��`i�L>�Al�@N���{�ya*��Nr��j�,�ȭh]��YV6:#Fs��$�T� �-��(����d=�@���q�gtB6 P[��]F-�[��Q���[�0O��W�����M�o Z��{hf=e��-�)|�Bnb+ ƍq`�e�S�,��︴�䤉�C�/��\�I�1��*��F6�3�ɖ�!Y�ml�ʥ�l&�3@x� 9͐�gSDQw'��S!�9�Y9i���8z�K;�]*���YI3ɷ��e��1�ȣ.�)�EZfw�qy�8��oQ{tH{��m�ާ���v03���vP��K���gcQ�4_��e�q����z���#v��dݬW=5��i�O���-�6Ae��΍����.�ђ/��L�:cP��� $�">yN�,���KX6�]������c����)$x�:�!�ɱ;�H�)��/[#�I{�7�� Often, they take each other's ideas as a basis and develop or counter argue them. A state expects its citizens to obey law so that it can function in a proper manner. In the first chapter, “Introduction”, I will be introducing my project and announce what I am getting at in my research. Just because you could get away with breaking the law … Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2003 Stanford Law School INTRODUCTION In 1960 Israeli agents kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Argentine territory. tion to obey. This violation of international law sparked protests from all quarters. 0000002381 00000 n The political obligation to obey the law is an essential feature of many modern-day states. Its core intuition is the belief that deny-ing an obligation to obey its laws is a denial of the justice of the state. Such hot debates never end as he is battled with numerous naturalists including Fuller and Finnis who believe, ideology The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Take home test 1 One oft-made argument against illegal immigration is that it is morally wrong simply because it is illegal. Rawls’s principle of fair play is essentially a just and united social, There is no absolute definition of law to describe what the law actually is. Indeed. Or do we have ‘nat… This is believed to be so either on instrumentalist grounds or on grounds of fairness. Before I begin, it would be worthwhile to try to pin down what ‘obligation’ in a general sense actually means. 0000029189 00000 n ��o5�`���@6F�3v1V�~0$vt��V�~� ���� I��adV&Eee��ScE In either case, it is a legal duty to obey political authority that we have. 0000005647 00000 n does not mean that the United States has a moral obligation to bring its. Law plays a normative role in such a theory. These are clear cases where we … The instrumentalist con- 18 Another theory claiming to explain why we have a moral obligation to obey law is the natural duty theory , most convincingly articulated by Jeremy W aldron in “Special Ties In fact, I think political obligations are a broader category of duties than strictly legal obligations. The two can come apart. (Symposium on Treaties, Enforcement, and U.S. To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws and support the institutions of one’s political community. norm, nor that its citizens or leaders have a moral obligation to cause the. “Moral entitities” are metaphysically superadded to physical entitites, so they are dependent on intelligent beings. 0000048135 00000 n 0000030688 00000 n • Not: Do we ever have a particular obligation to obey particular laws on particular . ...Political Obligation First published Tue Apr 17, 2007; substantive revision Fri Apr 30, 2010 To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws of one's country or state. So the hard question is how we come to actually acquire political and legal obligations. Others dismiss this suggesting that law need not […] I think the obligation comes more in the form of accepting the consequences of the law rather than blindly following it. The question is: does a citizen have a moral duty to obey the law and if so, why? That, I feel, is the most important moral obligation we have in a democratic society. Under this theory, political authority’s justification is based on a contract under which people agreed to give up some of their natural freedoms in return for the safety and security of a civilized society governed by law. My argument in this essay is that individuals can have a duty to obey the law when their community is governed by a system of customary law that evolves free from pre-existing state or other oppressive power structures. One can have a moral obligation to obey the law yet more important countervailing moral obligations may require one not to obey the law. OBLIGATIONS TO OBEY THE LAW J. L. Mackie* IS there an obligation to obey the law? We have a political obligation to obey the law in our society , this belief is backed up by the justifications of fairness, consent, utilitarianism, and morality, but the most compelling arguments found for the justification of why we should obey the law are consent, fairness and morality, Utilitarianism. Beyond this is the idea that law is, by nature, a moral endeavour and even where it is failing to accomplish its aims non-compliance with immoral laws undermines the authority of the legal system, promoting undesirable anarchy and is thus immoral. Legal duty: The obligations people have put upon them by the law. For example, Andrew Loh points out that sometimes, it appears that not all are equal before the law: One might argue that an inconsistent application of the law undermines the law’s authority, which correspondingly undermines any unqualified moral duty to obey it. Get involved in the process of how these laws come into being and how they can be changed. The claim that democratic citizens are morally obligated to obey unjust laws has been defended by several political thinkers, among whom John Rawls and Thomas Christiano. Smith questions the existence of a “prima facie obligation to obey the law” which is the case if “a person A [has] to do an act X if, and only if, there is a moral reason for S to do X which is such that, unless he has moral reason not to do X at least as strong as his reason to do X, S’s failure to do X is wrong”. In fact, I think political obligations are a broader category of duties then strictly legal obligations. Immigrants have an obligation to obey the law. So, if there are laws that people feel are unjust, the most powerful and responsible way to fulfill any moral obligation you may feel towards these laws is to VOTE. They also often overlap, though I shall argue that moral obligation is in some sense prior and superior, or more obliging than legal obligation . The law, defined as the ensemble of the norms and principles established in a community, is indispensable to the preservation of the state. But a legalistic view that has proponents is the one that states that there is aprima facie legal obligation to obey the law because the law is the law and it ought to be obeyed except in circumstances where the law permits disobedience. Their willingness to obey most likely As H. L. A. Hart argues, the distinctive thrust of political obligations can be seen in the contrast between being obliged to do p and having an obligation to do it (Hart 1961: 80–88). Some have claimed that law is the determination of moral norms and accordingly all legal obligations are also moral ones. The term“obligation” need not be used, nor its near-synonym,“duty.” One rarely finds the imperative mood. Gottfried Leibniz, in, Paper Topic 1 Consider the parallel with a promise : I am under a moral obligation to return a borrowed book but that obligation can be overriden by the more important moral obligation to help a dying person. 0000006001 00000 n x��gx�Ն��ر�|v�1��Ƙ�0��X�"Do���AH�袊.z�SE!�DQ｠޵�6�lp� ��f�Ly����+���y�����0 ţ�e��1��m6�? Since it is trivially true that one is legally obliged to obey the law, this question must concern a moral obligation to obey the law. Martin Luther King's words, which just correspond with the above assertion, perfectly tell us what to do in face of laws, either just or unjust. Leaned on the moral and the collective consent (Rule of Law), it organizes the organization of the state’s government and the relations between people. ����d���FL�h&�2�WS�� H�!����C�0�.LI(�� ��Pż>P�kC&v�s�ѫ��� �@�ڷϔ����آ���� 1z-ֱ���Ҙ!���EK�� > I will propose my question “do citizens have a moral obligation to obey the law” and will map out a brief description of the direction I will be heading. This, some commentators have argued, is lacking in some respects. I will address that First of all, it can be argued that the actions above do not mean giving consent, for two reasons. Moral obligation, then, is grounded in the command of a superior (human or divine), and commands are morally compelling due to the dual factors of fear and respect for the “just” reasons behind them. Underlying my own obedience to my country's laws are a number of reasons - an understanding of my obligation to take responsibility for my own actions, a recognition of my government's authority over me, a belief that the laws of my country are well-founded, and a fear of the consequences of disobeying said laws. People have a general duty to obey the law because it is democratically decided. Ross in THE RIGHT AND THE GooD ch. 2 (1930). ��F�����H���S�2+ɥ1H��̐Al���@��Y���|�6�[H1ɪO��$yZ�s$�8�Y�fb'<=� D:�z*�F�F�a�g�@Yc�P� �ؠj�u鴰..��y"�,��! occasions? In essence, both believe that citizens have to obey the law, even when it is unjust, that is to say, when citizens disagree with it, in a … In the writings of Honoré, Raz, Smith, Finnis and Bix there are many arguments for and against a general moral obligation to obey. Philosophers ascribe properties such as “content-independence” and “particularity” to it. ���(=�9��'�I�e��}�/f[39����Y 3�~��Rb�������v\̝�A��ֆ��4�'T'�R���}�uq�/4Z�! 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