Yet De Palma films from a position of authority derived from the authority of the filmmakers he studied and the styles he inherited.
On what basis could Scalia claim the authority to "void" government enactments that are inconsistent with this Constitution if this Constitution (presumably including Article III, from which Scalia derived his authority) has no fixed, determinable meaning?
With 88percentt of the vote for him as president, Mr. Arafat became the undisputed leader of his people -- no longer (or so it seemed) dismissible by Israelis as a terrorist who derived his authority from the gun, or by Islamic nationalists who had assailed him as the hand-picked collaborator of Israel and the United States.
Justices of the peace were appointed by, and derived their authority from, the monarch.
The French listened politely to Washington's rebuttal, which derived its authority from the original charter of the Virginia Company in 1606.
The little despotism he installed inside the four walls of his home mattered only because it derived its authority from the whole towering, mahogany-colored, tobacco-smelling, reasonable edifice of male superiority in the world outside.
Divine right of kings, political doctrine in defense of monarchical absolutism, which asserted that kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
But the other elements of how you construct "conscience", as a soldier, seem less derived from the authority of any State -- and more personally derived.
Maliki understands, as George Bush apparently does not, that no government which derives its authority from a foreign military occupation, or even appears to, will ever be seen as legitimate in the eyes of its own people.
The yearning for Warren followed from the conviction that moral authority might derive from intellectual authority, that the Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert was best equipped to explain the hole that the financial crisis had put us in.
