Why is obeying the law a legal responsibility?

People have a general duty to obey the law because it is democratically decided. Legal duty: The obligations people have put upon them by the law. Moral responsibility: The personal obligations people feel based on their beliefs about what is right and wrong.

Explanation:

Citizens obey laws or consent to judicial decisions without thinking too much about it. But law also works expressively by signaling information about risk or public attitudes that causes people to update their behavior

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the  wilmot proviso  was designed to eliminate  slavery  within the  landacquired as a result of the mexican war (1846-48). fearing the addition of a pro-slave territory, pennsylvania congressman david  wilmot proposedhis amendment to the bill.