Protestantism was imposed – through coercion, spying and disenfranchisement – by a cadre of political opportunists during just three decades of Henry's and then his daughter Elizabeth's reign.
NIXON 1969 Full participa tion of all political elements not using force; no coercion to impose any form of govern ment.
They can only make their victims angry and alienated.Yes, we must describe and criticise those who behave badly, who seek to impose their will by coercion, violence or propaganda; we must speak the truth as we see it.
These attempts to create consent went hand in hand with the coercion imposed by the regime through the OVRA and its enormous network of spies.
The concern then is that either the coercion imposed on individuals by the state is morally acceptable, in which case no special compensation is owed to those coerced, or it is morally unacceptable, in which case the coercion should be withdrawn.
Justice Kennedy's question was this: if government subsidies are held to be unavailable to tens of millions of Americans on the federal exchange, would this extremely pinched and hyperliteralist interpretation itself constitute a form of unconstitutional coercion imposed by Congress against the states?
The Constitution is not a majoritarian document, and there is no "inalienable" right to arbitrarily impose our will on other people, whether through naked coercion or politics masquerading as law.
Historically, the anxiety arises over attempts by government to impose those restrictions – by law, by regulation, or by coercion.
There are three basic types of conceptual account of legitimate political authority: legitimate political authority as justified coercion, legitimate political authority as the capacity to impose duties, and legitimate political authority as the right to rule.
It also distinguishes between authority in the sense of morally justified coercion and authority in the sense of capacity to impose duties on others and finally from authority as right to rule.
