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The 14 pages that link to Political obligation, each with the reason it gives.

• Civil disobedienceRelated: Civil disobedience tests whether legal authority creates an overriding duty to obey.

• Political legitimacyRelated: Legitimacy is often used to explain why citizens owe obedience.

• Social contractRelated: The contract is used to explain why citizens may owe obedience to government.

• Thomas HobbesRelated: Hobbes grounds obedience in protection secured by sovereign power.

• AuthorityRelated: It asks whether recognized political authority creates a duty to comply.

• Consent of the governedRelated: Consent theories explain political duties through authorization, though the explanation is contested.

• Democratic LegitimacyRelated: Legitimacy is often invoked to explain why citizens may owe obedience to democratic law.

• Political authorityRelated: Authority claims to generate duties of obedience, making their scope a central question.

• FreedomRelated: Freedom’s relationship to law raises the problem of when obedience is compatible with liberty.

• State of natureRelated: Contract arguments must explain why agreement binds people to political duties.

• Political theoryRelated: It tests whether political authority creates duties for those subject to it.

• LeviathanRelated: Hobbes connects obedience to the protection that sovereign power provides.

• Tax resistanceRelated: Tax refusal tests whether legal authority alone creates a moral duty to contribute.

• Anti-patriotismRelated: Anti-patriotism challenges the idea that national membership itself creates duties of obedience.