Sentence examples for authoritative law from inspiring English sources

The elected consuls wielded imperium or executive power; the Senate enjoyed the power to deliberate and consent to specific policies; and the popular assemblies served as the source of authoritative law, also electing the magistrates and the popular tribunes who exercised veto powers over the Senate.

An originally republican formula relating the consuls to the people as the source of authoritative law survives in a complete prescript of the Augustan period: "Titus Quinctius Crispinus [consul] lawfully asked the people, and the people lawfully resolved," as translated in Lintott 1999: 3).

"But I guess you have a certain look, it's kind of an authoritative law enforcement-type look, and that look is certainly the first thing that people cast you with before you get a chance to do some acting".

Antiphon goes on to contrast these rules of justice, which frustrate our nature and are only erratically enforced, with the authoritative laws of nature [phusis].

The Talmud the authoritative compendium of law, lore, and commentary speaks of the Boethusians in derisive tones.

Finally, the central religious literature of both traditions the Jewish Talmud (an authoritative compendium of law, lore, and interpretation), the New Testament, and the later patristic literature of the early Church Fathers are characteristic Hellenistic documents both in form and content.

For Raz, then, it is the authoritative nature of law which explains why legal reasoning is interpretive, whereas, for example, moral reasoning is not.

As much as I'd like to agree with Moore, Brooks and Lichtman--the names, after all, have the collective ring of an authoritative blue-chip law firm--I have to demur.

The paper presents a selected review of the literature including Statute, Case law, authoritative works and the medical press.

This policy was founded, according to authoritative Chinese criminal-law textbooks, on the historical mission of the proletariat to reform society and humanity.

At Edinburgh University's Law School he studied under Archie Campbell, the great Professor of Jurisprudence, and Professor John Mitchell, Britain's most authoritative scholar of European law.