Mamlaka

Mamlaka (kutoka Kiarabu; kwa Kiingereza "authority" kutoka neno la Kilatini auctoritas) linaweza kutumika kumaanisha haki ya kisheria ya kutumia nguvu ambayo imetolewa na nchi au vyombo vingine vya serikali kama mahakama, bunge na vyombo vya dola.

Neno mamlaka linapotumika katika mashirika au taasisi, huwa linamaanisha chombo kinachotawala ambacho kimepewa nguvu, kwa mfano: Mamlaka ya Maji Safi na Maji Taka Morogoro. 

Pia neno mamlaka linaweza kumaanisha haki ya kufanya kitu fulani.

Tanbihi

Marejeo
 Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2005)
 Józef Maria Bocheński, ? (1974)
 Renato Cristi, Hegel on Freedom and Authority (2005)
 Alexandre Kojève, "The notion of authority" (2014)
 Stuart Lachs, Means of Authorization: Establishing Hierarchy in Ch'an/Zen Buddhism in America (1999)
 Rafael Domingo Osle, Auctoritas (1999)
 Karl Popper, On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance (1960)
 Max Weber, Economy and Society (1922)

Viungo vya nje
 Qualitionary - Legal Definitions - Authority
 Appeal to Authority Breakdown 
 Four essays published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies from the Robert Papazian Essay Prize Competition on Authority 

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