03582nam 2200637Ia 450 991079193970332120230802012620.00-674-06517-40-674-06939-010.4159/harvard.9780674065178(CKB)2560000000082489(OCoLC)794004242(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568041(SSID)ssj0000654244(PQKBManifestationID)11444875(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000654244(PQKBWorkID)10661581(PQKB)11628344(MiAaPQ)EBC3301097(DE-B1597)178187(OCoLC)840435602(DE-B1597)9780674065178(Au-PeEL)EBL3301097(CaPaEBR)ebr10568041(EXLCZ)99256000000008248920111005d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAgainst obligation[electronic resource] the multiple sources of authority in a liberal democracy /Abner S. GreeneCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20121 online resource (346 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-06441-0 Includes bibliographical references (p.303-321) and index. Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. AGAINST POLITICAL OBLIGATION -- 2. ACCOMMODATING OUR PLURAL OBLIGATIONS -- 3. AGAINST INTERPRETIVE OBLIGATION TO THE PAST -- 4. AGAINST INTERPRETIVE OBLIGATION TO THE SUPREME COURT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEXDo 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 Greene argues that such obligations do not exist. Although citizens should obey some laws entirely, and other laws in some instances, no one has put forth a successful argument that citizens should obey all laws all the time. Greene's case is not only "against" obligation. It is also "for" an approach he calls "permeable sovereignty": all of our norms are on equal footing with the state's laws. Accordingly, the state should accommodate religious, philosophical, family, or tribal norms whenever possible.Greene shows that questions of interpretive obligation share many qualities with those of political obligation. In rejecting the view that constitutional interpreters must follow either prior or higher sources of constitutional meaning, Greene confronts and turns aside arguments similar to those offered for a moral duty of citizens to obey the law.Constitutional lawUnited StatesEffectiveness and validity of lawLawMoral and ethical aspectsObedience (Law)Constitutional lawEffectiveness and validity of law.LawMoral and ethical aspects.Obedience (Law)340/.112Greene Abner1960-1584315MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791939703321Against obligation3868008UNINA