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1. What is a relationship of authority?

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4. Such an unequal relationship of compliance is not intelligible either to participants or to observers, "unless they understand the reasons or the rules that go with it" (9).unmigrated-wiki-markup

5. Since "authority, in all its forms, is found only where a number of people are gathered together in some activity which depends upon their several roles," "it is by reference to some \ [such\] activity that every instance of authority may be understood, and, where justification is needed, justified" (105).

6. If each kind of authority did not normally have some kind of justification, it would never be possible to speak of authority's being exceeded or abused.

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