1. G. Klosko, The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation, 2nd edn ( Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 ), p. 1
2. J. Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 100. Hobbes writes that ‘the Common-wealth only, praescribes, and commandeth the observation of those rules, which we call Law’ ( Leviathan, XXVI, 426 ).
3. This assumes that authority and obligation are the two sides of the same coin. See also L. Green, The Authority of the State (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 234–40; Raz, The Morality of Freedom, pp. 23, 60, 100–1
4. J. Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994 ), p. 325
5. J. Raz, Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 ), p. 134