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MIGHT DOES NOT MAKE RIGHT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2010

Bruce B. Suttle
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Most people believe that rules, orders, and directives issue forth from some agency. Granting that, then being obligated to do something is interpreted as having been put under an obligation by some agency to do something. And if an obligation has been imposed upon one by some agency, then, it is concluded, that agency has the power – therefore the authority – to enforce compliance with the obligation.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 9 , Issue 25 , Summer 2010 , pp. 89 - 92
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2010

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