rightful authority
Example Sentences
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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
The will was treated as a master endowed with rightful authority; the desires were subjects, often in rebellion, but justly to be held in subjection.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart
