1970
DOI: 10.1017/s0008423900027141
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Ake on Political Obligation and Political Dissent: A Gloss

Abstract: As the background to his view that the liberal democratic theory of political obligation implies, under appropriate circumstances, not a right but a duty to resist one's government, Ake provides a judicious account not only of liberal democratic theory but also of utilitarian and legal positivist theory. None the less, his three synopses reveal the almost inevitable hazards of such accounts. The issue is not merely a historical one, for in each case the synoptic account determines the direction which his argum… Show more

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“…Ake goes on to argue that citizens actually have a duty to disobey. Bernard Wand criticises Ake's justification for the duty to disobey, but offers another account that also results in the obligation to resist governments that violate individual rights (Wand, 1970). 44.…”
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“…Ake goes on to argue that citizens actually have a duty to disobey. Bernard Wand criticises Ake's justification for the duty to disobey, but offers another account that also results in the obligation to resist governments that violate individual rights (Wand, 1970). 44.…”
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confidence: 99%