Assertion: authority | /r/HasAspect | right
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A third conceptual account of authority or set of conceptions of legitimate authority involves the idea that the authority has a right to rule.
text: So to the extent that a society ruled by an authority that has the right to rule is an ideal of a moral community, the other types of authority are lesser forms of a morally ideal political community.
text: Strictly speaking, an authority can have a right to rule without the subjects having a duty to comply.
text: Finally, an authority can have a right to rule in the sense that it may issue commands and make rules and require subjects to comply with these rules and commands and the subjects have duties, which they owe to the authority, to comply with the rules and commands.
text: And the idea of legitimate authority as an authority that has a right to rule over subjects who owe obedience to the authority and that has a right not to be interfered with by foreigners is surely an importantly distinct and perhaps ideal type of authority, which is rarely implemented.
text: An authority viewed as legitimate often has the right and justification to exercise power.
text: For this, the authority has the right to direct the others so that individuals perform their duties.
text: Finally, consider what corruption, what depravity of mind is kept up among men by the idea of obedience, the very essence of law; of chastisement; of authority having the right to punish, to judge irrespective of our conscience and the esteem of our friends; of the necessity for executioners, jailers, and informers --in a word, by all the attributes of law and authority.