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The Moral Limits of Law analyses the related debates concerning the
moral obligation to obey the law, conscientious citizenship, and
state legitimacy. Modern societies are drawn in a tension between
the centripetal pull of the local and the centrifugal stress of the
global. Boundaries that once appeared permanent are now permeable:
transnational legal, economic, and trade institutions increasingly
erode the autonomy of states. Nonetheless transnational principles
are still typically effected through state law. For law's subjects,
this tension brings into focus the interaction of legal and moral
obligations and the legitimacy of state authority. This volume
incorporates a comprehensive critical analysis of the methodology
and substance of the debates in recent legal, political, and moral
philosophy, regarding political obligation and the moral obligation
to obey the law. The author argues that traditional accounts of
political obligation that assume a bounded conception of the polity
are no longer tenable. Higgins therefore presents an original
theory of the conscientious agent's attitude towards law that
accommodates the contemporary social tension between local and
global obligations.
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