Republic, N. A Nation In Which, The Thing Governing And The Thing Governed Being The Same, There Is Only A Permitted Authority To Enforce An Optional Obedience.
Legitimate Authority To Be, To Do Or To Have; As The Right To Be A King, The Right To Do One's Neighbor, The Right To Have Measles, And The Like.
Plenipotentiary, Adj. Having Full Power. A Minister Plenipotentiary Is A Diplomatist Possessing Absolute Authority On Condition That He Never Exert It.
But I Was Amazed At How Organized The Palestinian Election Authority Was, How Competent They Were In Setting Up Their Polling Places And The Poll Workers They Had.
Let No Thought Pass Incognito, And Keep Your Notebook As Strictly As The Authorities Keep Their Register Of Aliens.
Molecular Evolution Is Not Based On Scientific Authority. . . . There Are Assertions That Such Evolution Occurred, But Absolutely None Are Supported By Pertinent Experiments Or Calculations. Since No One Knows Molecular Evolution By Direct Experience, And Since There Is No Authority On Which To Base Claims Of Knowledge, It Can Truly Be Said That . . . The Assertion Of Darwinian Molecular Evolution Is Merely Bluster.
The Difficulty That Contestation Must Be Done In The Name Of An Authority Is Resolved This: I Contest In The Name Of Contestation What Experience Itself Is.
It Is Right To Submit To A Higher Authority Whenever A Command Of God Would Be Violated.
Like Rousseau, Whom He Resembles Even More Than He Resembles Voltaire, Shaw Never Gave A Social Form To His Assertiveness, Never Desired To Arrive And To Assimilate Himself, Or Wield Authority As Of Right.
