The phrase "locus of authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the source or origin of authority in a particular situation or context. Example: The government has always been considered the locus of authority in matters of national security.
The Orleanist system thus rested on a basic ambiguity about the real locus of authority.
But once they all had died, there was an acute question regarding the locus of authority.
He is an example of the very thing James Wilson was trying to prevent by having one locus of authority in the executive.
They also questioned the Sunni notions of isnād and of the community as a locus of authority and evolved their own system of submission to their imams.
There must be a single "locus of authority" on the topic within the government, he said.
Such regulatory regimes are those in which the state is not the sole locus of authority, or indeed in which it may play no role at all.
Concurrently, European society as a whole became more literate in two ways: more individuals learned to read and write their native tongues, and even those who could not themselves read and write came to rely upon written documents as loci of authority and significance.
For some time after that, I tried to find the locus of his authority and could not.
It leaves the locus of political authority in dispute, as well as highlighting the anomaly of Scottish MPs committed to the union with Europe, but not with Great Britain.
(DJN VII.5.1, 5.13) The crucial defining factor in each instance is the unity and locus of ultimate authority, not how its commands are executed or policies implemented.
An alternative, and quite different, typology is offered by Molewijk et al. [ 9], who distinguish between different kinds of research strategy by reference to the locus of moral authority in order to clarify how best to arrive at a normative conclusion.
