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If all nonexecutive authority can be legitimate only if it is authorized by the executive authority of reality, on the one hand, and common human experience and reason, on the other, then all legitimate nonexecutive authority is indirectly legitimate executive authority as well. As such, it has an indirect right to command as well as a direct right to be believed, followed, etc., even though it never has a right —even indirect—to coerce.

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