rightfulness

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011

This is inconsistent with the eternal principles of justice and rightfulness.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook

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

Both the late master and the late slave should begin on the new order of things with a sense of its permanence on the one hand and its rightfulness on the other.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

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