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

Reasons for interest.—The propriety of interest under any circumstances has often been questioned, and its rightfulness is still bitterly disputed.

From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild

The points of difference, however, relate mainly to persons and particular events, upon the main question, the rightfulness of the Hungarian struggle, little room is left for doubt.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

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