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    It is not the case that Political obligation belongs to moral and political philosophy, not to a theory of what law is or why it normatively binds within its own system.

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    • 1.Law's normative force depends on whether it creates genuine obligations, which is fundamentally a moral question.
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    • 2.Positivist accounts of law that ignore political obligation cannot explain law's practical authority over subjects.
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    • 3.Separating what law is from why it binds creates an artificial divide when both depend on legitimacy criteria.
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    • 1.Legal systems can function and maintain internal coherence without grounding obligation in moral philosophy.
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    • 2.Conflating political obligation with jurisprudence obscures distinct questions: why obey law vs. what law is.
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    • 3.Moral philosophy cannot definitively explain why legal systems in fact bind citizens, only whether they should.
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