Assertion: caliph's authority | /r/CapableOf | decide exception
Facets:
value: to them
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The obvious thing to note in this observation is that the theological origins and pretensions of political concepts define the modern state: sovereignty (a god-like, unquestionable authority to make laws and decide exceptions to them), territory (a bounded area where the sovereignty of the state is supreme), national community (the believers in the nation’s greatness and mythic past), and citizenship (rights given to individuals on the basis of relation to the state, denied to non-citizens), and so on.