Présentation de l'éditeur : "The central question in legal philosophy is the relationship between law and morality. The legal systems of many countries around the world have been influenced by the principles of the Enlightenment: freedom, equality and fraternity. The position is…
Main description: Greene argues that citizens are not morally obligated to obey the law and that officials need not follow prior or higher authority when reading the Constitution. The sources of authority in a liberal democracy are multiple-the law must compete with other norms.…
The author addresses two questions in this work: whether citizens have a moral obligation to obey the law, regardless of its content, the circumstances of its application, or whether it contradicts other norms or values, and whether government officials must always adhere to oth…
Do citizens of a nation such as the United States have a moral duty to obey the law? Do officials, when interpreting the Constitution, have an obligation to follow what that text meant when ratified? To follow precedent? To follow what the Supreme Court today says the Constituti…