Antithetical to natural law

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If a duly elected government enacts laws that are antithetical to natural law, targeting one or more marginalized communities (think Jim Crow laws, colonial India, Nazi law, apartheid South Africa, etc.), under what conditions (I any) would citizens be justified in disobeying the law? You must use at least one early natural law theorist (Aristotle, St. Thomas, Hobbes, Locke, etc.), and at least one modern natural law theorist (Finnis, Dworkin, Rawls, etc.), to support your answer.

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