 On the duty to obey government, Thomas does not adopt the position that many others found in the New Testament, that disobedience is never justified. According to Thomas Aquinas, though there is a general duty to obey the law and the government, an unjust law is not a law  (Summa, 1–2, q. 96, a. 4;  see also  2–2, q. 104, a. 5).[52] 