rightfulness

It has to do with determination and the rightfulness and truthfulness of ideas.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011

The first step, then, in the inquiry, which the constitution and laws impose on this Court, is an examination of the rightfulness of this claim.

From Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus the State of Georgia With a Statement of the Case, Extracted from the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States by John Marshall

No man's sentiments on the rightfulness of religious persecution will be affected by the theories we have described, and they have no bearing whatever on doctrinal controversy.

From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

And as a matter of theory, what could be more rational and defensible than such an intervention made systematic, with its rightfulness and disinterestedness universally recognised?

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre by John Morley

It is the glory of England that the rightfulness of the Stamp Act was in England itself a subject of dispute.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson