According to Rousseau, when are citizens obliged to obey the law and when they are not?

was an
advocate of direct democracy, the only political form he believed could provide clarity to the
question of obligation. Rousseau maintained that humans are naturally free, but are corrupted by
society. Before the advent of private property and the division of labor, humans were
autonomous, i.e., they were the authors of their own actions rather than being influenced by
outside forces. Rousseau tried to expose the contradictory logic behind the dominant philosophy
of his age which defended an individualistic notion of the self. He instead argued in modern
society, what we consider "the self" is actually constituted by others. What Rousseau
is trying to say is that our desires and needs are constructed socially rather than
individually. Nonetheless Rousseau thought that democratic governance could recover humanity's
autonomy and give us a common political form that would solve the question of
obligation.

According to Rousseau, citizens must only obey laws
that...