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142. i.e. as they derive their rights from their membership in the state, they have no right to disobey the law unless it be for the interest of the state

143. And even then only if the law violates some interest which is implicitly acknowledged by the conscience of the community

144. It is a farther question when the attempt to get a law repealed should be exchanged for active resistance to it

145. e.g. should a slave be befriended against the law? The slave has as a man certain rights which the state cannot extinguish, and by denying which it forfeits its claim upon him

146. And it may be held that the claim of the slave upon the citizen, as a man, overrides the claim of the state upon him, as a citizen

147. Even here, however, the law ought to be obeyed, supposing that its violation tended to bring about general anarchy.

I. Private rights. The right to life and liberty.

148. There are rights which men have as members of associations, which come to be comprised in the state, but which also exist independently of it