legitimate authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegitimateandauthority
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legitimate
adjective
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegitimate authority
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He was also anxious to justify 1688 in ways that did not abandon the central principles of hereditary succession and submission tolegitimateauthority.
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The sole source oflegitimateauthority(though, as said above, not the sole basis of political duty) is, then, the rational consent of individuals.
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I am not claiming, however, that the existence of plans suffices to create or maintain morallylegitimateauthoritystructures.
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Thus, society haslegitimateauthorityto permit speech that exposes such harmful social behaviour by corrupt or incompetent public officials.
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How should we understand the legislative determination in order to preserve the possibility that legislatures can havelegitimateauthorityon these five grounds?
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In the electoral logic, however,legitimateauthoritycomes from below, and electorates can elect their leaders or displace them if necessary by their votes.
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But perhaps the crucial question is whether an authorless customary norm could ever enjoylegitimateauthority.
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Second, and more generally, obedience tolegitimateauthorityis an important part of social order and should be withdrawn only under compelling circumstances.
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Of course, customary norms will not always enjoylegitimateauthority, but then the same is true of legislation and judicial decisions.
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I have saved the expertise ground oflegitimateauthorityfor last.
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The situation is not merely one of illegal acts, but one where such acts are entangled in struggles overlegitimateauthorityover land.
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Society would still havelegitimateauthorityto force speakers if need be to permit other people to rush for the exits.
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Legitimateauthorityis not co-extensive either with the totality of legally permissible moral commitments nor with the totality of actual psychological assents.
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Raz further believes that there is seldom, if ever, an obligation to obey the law based upon thelegitimateauthorityof its directives.
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Raz argues that if the dependence thesis were true oflegitimateauthorityand the preemption thesis false, certain reasons would be double counted.
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Since, on his view, the content of a moral norm cannot be identified without recourse to the reasons justifying that norm, moral criteria of validity are incapable oflegitimateauthority.
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Society has nolegitimateauthorityto permit expression that impinges on her self-regarding liberty by exposing the details of her private life against her wishes.
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