 Other interpreters, such as Schwartz, argue that, for Suárez, consent directly causes political obligation without the mediation of the political community (Schwartz 2008). What the political community causes by “natural resultancy” is not the citizens' political subjection to the ruler. Rather, it is the community's original rightful incumbency to the role of the ruler (its self-mastership). For Suárez, to say that the self-mastership of the political community emanates by natural resultancy is simply a way of saying that this mastership has no external cause (such as God). The right to self-rule of the political community has the same origin as the political community itself: consent. This effect is not mediated by any intervening cause.