Private citizens need only obey rules for their own part.

Evidence

The first condition is the only one which private citizens need satisfy: they may obey each ‘for his part only’ and from any motive whatever; though in a healthy society they will in fact often accept these rules as common standards of behaviour and acknowledge an obligation to obey them, or even trace this obligation to a more general obligation to respect the constitution. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 349

Categorization

• XREF: XREF: Connects to theories of state authority and obedience. — connects to: A functioning legal system can exist where only officials accept its rules. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 350; The state precedes the individual because humans achieve their full purpose only within society — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 802; A legal contract channels stored political power toward private purposes (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 349

Related

• A functioning legal system can exist where only officials accept its rules. (similarity 0.82)
• A legal contract channels stored political power toward private purposes (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A legal contract channels stored political power toward private purposes #qualifies (0.75)
• The state precedes the individual because humans achieve their full purpose only within society #qualifies (0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 802