Against Obligation: The Multiple Sources of Authority in a Liberal Democracy

by Abner S. Greene

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 Constitution means?

These are questions of political obligation (for citizens) and interpretive obligation (for anyone interpreting the Constitution, often officials). Abner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064410
• ISBN13: 9780674064416
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"