Democracy and Political Obligation

Running head: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION
Democracy and political obligation
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1DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION
Introduction
There lies a widespread belief that democratic pedigree of a state affects the moral
obligations for obeying the laws. Democracy is considered to be the most ideal form of the
political obligation.According to definitions, democracy is the government of the people, by the
people and for the people (Somin, 2016). Democracy is the one and only form of the government
where the wishes of the citizens are reflected through the administration.There lies differentiated
conception of the political obligation in the concept of democracies (Scheffler, 2018).
Discussion
The modern societies accept the distinction between the legal and the ethical
obligations.The legal obligations constitute a sphere of norms and rules that includes
responsibilities and duties that can be compelled to perform by the citizens by giving them some
threats of punishments and consequences arising from legal boundaries (Scheffler, 2018). Ethical
obligation constitutes the intention of a person and the person’s consciences.The legal and the
moral law consist of a different set of duties.Political obligation is thus enforcing of the moral
duties over the citizens of stes in the name of law.One of the notable example from the history of
politics includes the scenaio of western politics in the sixteenth century.With the rising
democratic government and liberal traditions,citizens of the states were forced to accept all the
regulations and the illicit practises of the government in the name of law;failing and violating
those resulted them to loose their citizenship and their state.
The system of law differentiates duties as unambiguous and identifies the rules for the
precise enforcement for the sake of certainty and to avoid any arbitrariness (Weinstein,