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We are duty-bound to obey by virtue of this content.

- Communal obligation:

When we are in a group (family, sport team, or other), we have to obey to some obligation. People have such duties by virtue of their memberships in groups even if they haven't chosen or consented to belong to these groups.

Political obligation can be seen as communal obligation.

Dworkin = three thesis:

- Communal obligations are a possible basis for political obligation

* Emotional ties btw the obliged party and the part to whom the obligation is owed. But emotional ties are not enough = duty must be given to every member of the group w/o any consideration. Bc being a member of the group (=consent?) engender law that ppl who are not in the group don’t have.

- They are the only possible basis for this obligation

- Communal obligations are the basis for the duty to obey the law

- On the importance of the duty to obey the law:

Obey the law must be seen as a universal duty.

1. A moral duty is important if it is capable of rendering necessary and positive actions which would be negative, in the absence of this duty.

2. Then general duties are important if they protect important values and the duty to obey the law indeed does so.

3. The importance of general duties is a function not only of the general values which they protect, but also of the frequency with which they will or may apply, and the frequency with which our actual lives encounter the reasons dominated by these duty.