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    The account of legitimate authority as a justification ri... — Carmelics
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    The account of legitimate authority as a justification right is not undermined by the autonomy-based objection to authority.

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    • 1.The autonomy-based objection applies only to accounts of authority that imply content-independent duties to obey on the part of subjects.
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    • 2.The account of legitimate authority as a justification right does not imply content-independent duties to obey on the part of subjects.
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    • 1.The justification right account still compromises autonomy by granting authorities the power to alter the normative landscape without subjects' consent.
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    • 2.Kant's autonomy principle requires that legitimate normative constraints originate from the subject's own rational will, not from external institutional rights.
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    • 3.A right to justify coercion to others is not sufficient to neutralize the autonomy cost of rendering certain deliberative paths normatively unavailable.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.If subjects retain full discretion to evaluate each directive on its merits, the practical difference between authority and mere advice collapses, as Wolff argued in 'In Defense of Anarchism'.
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    Notable Defenders

    A. John SimmonscontemporarySimmons 2001
    A. John SimmonscontemporarySimmons 2001
    David Estlundcontemporary
    contemporaryHurd 2001
    Joseph RazcontemporaryCited for the thesis that justice and morality underdetermine the legislation necessary to bring about justice
    Leslie GreencontemporaryGreen 1989
    Robert Paul Wolffcontemporary
    John Lockemodern
    John LockemodernLocke 1990

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    The worry is that authority is never legitimate because the kind of obedience associated with authority is inconsistent with the autonomy of the subject. We can see, however, that this worry applies only to certain accounts of authority, which imply duties to obey on the part of the subjects. The account of authority as justified coercion is not affected by this argument nor is the account of legitimate authority consisting of a justification right affected by this worry. Still, most accounts of
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