Some theories have adopted certain main tenets of natural law theory, and professed to be natural law theories, but have asserted that even the most unjust laws create an obligation to obey which is both legal and moral.
While the Supreme Court ruling has given same-sex couples the cherished freedom to marry, it does not create an obligation to marry, but rather it provides the opportunity for a carefully considered individual decision, one that significantly promotes each party's financial future and a lasting marriage.
A problem I have with holiday cards is that receiving one creates an obligation to send one back.
Legitimacy, for Rousseau, justifies the state's exercise of coercive power and creates an obligation to obey.
Concerning social security rights however equal treatment with nationals creates an obligation to pay contribution fees without in most cases being covered by these services.
He gloatingly asks how "an amoral datum called law could have the peculiar quality of creating an obligation to obey it" (Fuller, 1958).
When the audience watches this type of work in a dark room, much the same way one would watch a movie, it practically creates an obligation to stay put.
In some states joint physical custody creates a presumption of equal shared parenting, however in most states, joint physical custody creates an obligation to provide each of the parents with "significant periods" of physical custody so as to assure the child of "frequent and continuing contact" with both parents.
This convention creates an obligation to offer effective treatment to sexual abusers of children, individuals at higher risk of committing such offences, and children with sexual behaviour problems.
Some of the tactics used by the CPP to consolidate and expand their political dominance include using state machinery and resources to disenfranchise voters, gift giving to rural voters in order to create an obligation of loyalty to the party, luring opposition leaders to defect by awarding them positions in government, and preventing opposition parties from accessing the media.
The "scores of women and children crying for bread, whose husbands, Sons and fathers are in the army today" should create an obligation on the government to "prevent suffering" for the "infirm and the helpless," which "justice, humanity, and every principle of Christianity forbids".
