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On Political Obligation

Judith N. Shklar, Samantha Ashenden, and Andreas Hess

Print publication date: 2019

Print ISBN-13: 9780300214994

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2019

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300214994.001.0001

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Conscientious Objection

Conscientious Objection

Chapter:
(p.191) Lecture 21: Conscientious Objection
Source:
On Political Obligation
Author(s):

Judith N. Shklar

, Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess
Publisher:
Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300214994.003.0018

Shklar draws a distinction between civil disobedience and conscientious objection. The difference is mainly to be found in the fact that the former consists in attempts to change the democratic polity while the latter does—not the latter claims only the right to follow through on a personal conscientious decision.

Keywords:   military conscription, personal beliefs, religious freedom, legal orders

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