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To have moral (= deontic, executive) authority is to have an office or position defined or constituted by certain responsibilities and rights \-\- namely, those involving making decisions that obligate others, at least _prima facie_, to comply with them, regardless of what their personal decisions about the matters would otherwise have been. In the nature of the case, the voice of moral authority is at least _prima facie_ overriding for those subject to or obligated by the authority. Furthermore, the authority, or some other agency whose function it is, has the right and the responsibility to enforce \[_sic_\] compliance with its decisions. Such is the case with the parent, the teacher, the foreman, the policeman, the judge, the legislative body, the head of state, and so on.