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    John T. Sanders and Jan Narveson, ed., For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings:For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings.Christopher Roberson - 1999 - Ethics 110 (1):221-223.
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    The State as Rational Authority: An Anarchist Justification of Government.Christopher Roberson - 1998 - Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18 (4):617-630.
    Joseph Raz's defence of government is grounded in his ‘normal justification thesis’. This thesis justifies the exercise of state authority in just those cases where subjects are more likely to fulfill their duties by obeying the state than by carrying out their own deliberations. I argue that the assumptions underlying this argument are importantly similar to those made by the Enlightenment anarchist philosopher William Godwin. Raz's arguments can supplement Godwin's political theory, producing an argument which, though grounded in anarchist principles, (...)
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    Book ReviewsWilliam A., ed. Edmundson, The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. Pp. x+352. $74.95 ; $23.95. [REVIEW]Christopher Roberson - 2002 - Ethics 112 (3):614-616.