rightful authority
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Understanding who possesses what rightful authority in our government is one of the simplest goals of a democratic society.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2017
Our God and God of our ancestors: We ask Your blessings for our country — for its government, for its leaders and advisers, and for all who exercise just and rightful authority.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2016
The robes of ducal ceremony, which he briefly dons to reassert his rightful authority, suit this diffident Prospero no more comfortably than his magic cloak.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010
But she fed Henry with selected readings that supported the view that kings had rightful authority over the church.
From Newsweek
He was one of the first to treat unbelief, from the side of religion, as an error of judgment, not as rebellion against rightful authority.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
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