The phrase "a volition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a conscious choice or decision made by an individual.
Example: "His actions were driven by a volition to succeed against all odds."
Alternatives: "a will" or "a choice".
He defined law as primarily "an assemblage of signs declarative of a volition conceived or adopted by the sovereign of a state" and so followed Hobbes and earlier theorists in thinking about law on the model of command.
This law is simply a backward, visceral objection to the thought of a woman behind the wheel, a physical embodiment of a volition which is too offensive to enact.
Locke says that an involuntary action is performed "without" a volition.
Locke is telling us that what makes an action/forbearance voluntary is that it is consequent to a volition, and that what makes an action/forbearance involuntary is that it is performed without a volition.
Locke assumes (reasonably) that in order for an action A to be voluntary, it must be caused (in the right way) by a volition that A occur (or, as Locke sometimes puts it, by a volition to do A).
For example, Locke would not count the motion of my left arm as voluntary if it were caused by a volition that my right arm move (or a volition that my left arm remain at rest).
But Burbank received a kill from Kelli Brenn and the Falcons were called for a net volition and a Crescenta Valley shot was then called out to give the Bulldogs the match.
According to SDT, there are 3 main psychological needs that influence motivation [ 26]; these are autonomy (the need to feel like you have a choice, volition, and an internal perceived locus of causality), competence (the need to feel you have the ability to make the change) and relatedness (the need to feel connected to others).
He isn't a pantheist because the relation between God and the world is construed as a relation between a creative volition and its immediate effects.
Our inability to understand how God moves a person to a meritorious volition, while leaving it within the person's power not to elicit the volition, thus moving the person to will in a self-determining way, is not, in Arnauld's view, surprising, for we are unable, in general, to understand how God produces effects outside of Himself.
It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".
