successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate. But not all states in the world are democratic‚ so can they be seen to be a legitimate governing
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Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley
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Weber on Legitimate Norms and Authority Author(s): Martin E. Spencer Source: The British Journal of Sociology‚ Vol. 21‚ No. 2 (Jun.‚ 1970)‚ pp. 123-134 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The London School of Economics and Political Science Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/588403 . Accessed: 21/11/2014 14:18 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Raz’s argument from legitimate authority to the sources thesis is not sound. I make that argument in Part II after‚ in Part I‚ reconstructing Raz’s argument. I Does law claim legitimate authority? Raz says it does. Adhering to the prevailing view in jurisprudence‚ Raz appears to agree that legitimate authority consists in a right to rule paired with a correlative obligation among the authority’s subjects to obey. This talk of “rights” and “obligations” differs legitimate authority from illegitimate
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Critically assess the claim that conscience is a reliable guide to ethical decision making. Conscience is something inside of us which distinguishes good from evil and makes us feel guilty when we have done something wrong. As defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English‚ is ‘A person’s moral sense of right and wrong‚ viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour’. It plays a decisive role in any moral decision‚ and just like normative ethics‚ one can base their moral decisions on their conscience
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Critically assess the claim that religious language is meaningless (35 Marks) Religious language has been argued about by many philosophers with regards to whether or not the ways in which we speak about religion are meaningful. This issue of religious language is concerned with the methods by which man talks about God in concern with theist or atheist ideologies. For some‚ religious language is meaningful and full of purpose while others see it to being pointless. The first assertion of the meaningless
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LEGITIMATE EXPECTATION The Legal and Institutional Background The doctrine of legitimate expectation operates as a control over the exercise of discretionary powers conferred upon a public authority. The typical reason why discretionary powers are conferred upon a public authority is to ensure that they are exercised having due regard to the particular circumstances of individual cases coming before the decision-maker – ie in circumstances where Parliament was not confident at the time
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The recognition of substantive legitimate expectations is to be welcomed‚ but the standard of review in such cases remains problematic. Discuss. Fairness and legal certainty are two crucial factors to be seen in decisions made by public authorities; the doctrine of legitimate expectations was first formulated by Lord Denning MR in Schmidt v Home Secretary (1969).The doctrine comes into play when a public authority makes a declaration regarding its policy‚ or the manner in which it will exercise
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Examine and assess how political order is made and repaired. In this TMA I will examine and assess how political order is made mainly through the state. In order to create‚ maintain and repair political order‚ the state needs authority from its citizens to do so and this authority needs to be legitimate. ‘Legitimacy refers to a belief in the states rightness‚ its right to rule or the idea that its authority is proper.’ I will then explain how today‚ legitimacy is closely linked to democracy
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Examine and comment on the claim that the mind and body are the same‚ with reference to the topic you have investigated. The mind and body are the same is the view that hard materialists take. Hard materialists believe that when either the body or soul dies‚ the other dies too. This means that they believe there is no after life‚ no purgatory etc. Ryle and Dawkins are hard materialists; they also think that believing in the soul is dangerous to human endeavour. Being a hard materialist‚ Dawkins
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