Sentence examples for source of the authority from inspiring English sources

For Mackenzie, being self-governing is to have "normative authority" over one's decisions, which means that an agent must "regard herself as the legitimate source of the authority, as able, and authorized, to speak for herself…[S]uch attitudes towards oneself can only be sustained in relations of intersubjective recognition" (Mackenzie 2008, 4).

Throughout his inscriptions, Darius not only speaks of the source of the authority of the kingship as deriving from Ahura Mazdā but also makes it clear that his own establishment of political stability over the chaos of rebellion and his maintenance of order through law imitates the divine model set by the Creator.

So autonomy, when applied to an individual, ensures that the source of the authority of the principles that bind her is in her own will.

The autonomy formula presumably does this by putting on display the source of our dignity and worth, our status as free rational agents who are the source of the authority behind the very moral laws that bind us.

When religion claims authority in the political sphere, it is unsurprising — and totally justifiable — that atheists and skeptics question the source of this authority.

While the NDA says that MPD has the statutory authority to use the Stingray, MPD spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump would not respond to a question about the statutory source of that authority.

The father provides a source of authority, the mother a sense of mystery.

There are no parties and no single source of authority: the president shares power with the "supreme leader", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Finally, the survey showed that Mahroum, Bradley and Thombs all interpret the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to mean that God is the highest source of authority in the country, over voters, the Supreme Court and the Constitution.

The question boils down to who or what is the source of moral authority, God or the human being, religion or ethics?

"So if Congress is in the driver's seat, why isn't Congress the source of authority for the purposes of our double jeopardy jurisprudence?" she asked.