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100. The individual must indeed judge for himself whether a law is for the common good; but though he judge it not to be, he ought as a rule to obey it

101. Cases in which a doubt may arise

102. (a) Where the legal authority of the law is doubtful, owing to the doubt where the sovereignty in the state resides

103. In such cases the truth generally is that the 'right,' on the particular issue, has not yet formed itself

104. But it does not follow that because the 'right' is on both sides, one is not 'better' than the other; though this may be the case

105. In such cases of disputed sovereignty the distinction of 'de jure' and 'de facto' may be applied, though it is better to say that the sovereignty is in abeyance

106. The individual, having no 'right' to guide him, should take the side whose success seems likely to be best for mankind

107. (b) Another case is where there is no legal way of getting a bad law repealed. Here it is a question, not of right, but of duty, to resist the sovereign