 It may affirm our confidence in the obligation-correlative view to know that from earliest times philosophical reflection on political authority has focused on the obligation to obey. The passive obligation of obedience is certainly not all we owe the law (Parekh 1993: 243; Green 2002: 543–547) but many have taken it to be law’s minimum demand. This gives rise to a puzzle. As Robert Paul Wolff puts it: