The 19th Century liberal John Stuart Mill was a life-long campaigner for greater democracy, but he also worried that personal liberty would shrink once governments could claim to express the will of the majority.
For Raz, legal institutions claim to express binding and authoritative judgements regarding what ought to be done which are designed to allow people to better conform to reason if they follow the decisions of the authority than if they try to follow those other reasons which apply to them directly (see Raz 1994, ch.10).10
Law, unlike morality, stems from social sources (on the role of social sources in understanding law, see Raz 1979 and the entry on legal positivism), from institutions issuing purportedly authoritative directives which claim to express a binding judgement about what ought to be done.
There are many modal formulas that are not theorems of T but that have a certain claim to express truths about necessity and possibility.
For decades the Communist Party has claimed to embody and express the will of the masses.
Crucially, however, these private initiatives are voluntary (and so may be abandoned freely) and they do not (nor can they claim to) authoritatively express the public interest, as the private actors may promote other alternatives than government would prefer.
The most significant 2281 genes yielding the smallest 10% of overall p values were claimed to be differentially expressed in this study.
The FDR is the proportion of false positives in the list of genes claimed to be differentially expressed.
And fourth, the signs in a language system refer only to other signs in it, but discourse "refers to a world that it claims to describe, to express, or to represent"(From Text to Action, 145).
With no alternative, concerned community members have been attending government ecosystem restoration forums and BP claims meetings to express their anger and frustration over the lack of government action. .
