Amenda asked:

What do we mean by "political obligation"?

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All, except Anarchists would agree we have some political obligation. The extent of this obligation
mainly concerns the question of civil disobedience; the most prevalent theory of the justification of
political oblication is "contractarianism" which is that govenment and citizens have some kind of
(implied) contract where the "consideration" of the government is the protection of the citizen and the
provision of conditions for a civilized society; and the "consideration" of the citizen is obedience to the
government. A great deal of this is questionable, of course.

Kenneth Stern