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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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