The Ethics of Deference: Learning from Law's Morals
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Do citizens have an obligation to obey the law? Do legal systems claim citizens have such an obligation? This book challenges the currently popular view that law claims authority but does not have it by arguing that the popular view is wrong on both counts: Law has authority but does not claim it. Though the focus is on political obligation, the author approaches that issue indirectly by first developing a more general account of when deference is due to the views of others. Two standard practices that poli