A basic question being addressed in the article concerns a peculiar moment when obligation enters into arena of the political. And thus, it becomes political obligations that adumbrates a new ideational dimension. An interesting cluster of ideas is located In the dimension. Ideas referring to political obligation we can find in Plato’s Crito. Origins of reflection upon the political obligation are laid down by Socrates in his last days before drinking hemlock. He poses several perennial questions that are of foundational nature. Laws organizing the political community, that since then we know as a ‘patria’, do not arrogate certain strictures. They rather corroborate citizens’ obedience. And whereby authority stems from them. Assuming the modern perspective the political obligation brings about otus that legitimizes civil disobedience. But ‘via antiqua’ presumes that it brings the order into human behavior and into community. And as such it is essential to the politics. Thus, legitimacy, authority, laws, justice, state delineate boundaries of the domain called the political where obligation constitutes the salient place.