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    It is not the case that Raz's service conception shows that any account dissolving content-independent obligations dissolves the very concept of authority, making the justification right account not an authority account at all.

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    • 1.Content-independent obligations can exist without dissolving the concept of authority itself.
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    • 2.A justification-right account may preserve authority's legitimacy through a different mechanism than Raz proposes.
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    • 3.Dissolving one account of authority's foundations doesn't eliminate authority as a practical social phenomenon.
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    • 1.Authority requires that subjects have reason to obey independent of the content's independent justification.
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    • 2.If justification-right accounts eliminate content-independent obligations, they collapse authority into mere advice.
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    • 3.Raz's service conception preserves the distinctive normative force that distinguishes authority from persuasion.
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