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Kelsen's Concept of Authority1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

J. W. Harris
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The concept of authority is one which may be explicated in many ways—normatively, psychologically, sociologically, politically. That is to say, one may seek to show how it is used in the contexts of normative justifications or of assertions about psychological, sociological or political phenomena. As a normative concept, “authority” relates to situations in which there is given as a reason warranting that something should, must not, or may be done the fact that a particular individual or individuals has so laid it down.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , November 1977 , pp. 353 - 363
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1977

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2 See, for example, the essays by Peters, R. S. and Winch, Peter in Political Philosophy, (Anthony Quinton ed., 1967Google Scholar); and by Tuck, Richard in Philosophy Politics and Society, 4th series (Laslett, Runciman and Skinner eds., 1972Google Scholar).

3 GTLS, pp. 31–32; WJ, p. 219; PTL, pp. 44–50; SLR, p. 1144; ELMP, p. 245.

4 PTL, p. 9, 226.

5 See, for example, ELMP, Chaps. 1, 2, 5 and 6.

6 GTLS, pp. 117, 396, 437; WJ, pp. 221, 262; PTL, pp. 9–10, 204; SLR, p. 1149; (1966) 1 Israel L.R. 8.

7 “When and why does the Grundnorm change?” [1971] 29 C.L.J 103.

8 GTLS, pp. 47–49; WJ, pp. 209–230; PTL, pp. 30, 50–54, 195, 202, 234; SLR, p. 1143; and see especially ELMP, Chaps. 4 and 14.

9 GTLS, pp. 30, 121; WJ, pp. 211, 269; PTL, pp. 10, 19, 86, 104, 213; and see especially ELMP, Chaps. 9–12.

10 GTLS, p. 436; PTL, p. 102.

11 GTLS, pp. 110–112; PTL, pp. 6, 193–195; ELMP, pp. 217, 219.

12 ELMP, pp. 246–247.

13 ELMP, Chaps. 10–12.

14 GTLS, pp. 124, 162; WJ, pp. 278–280; PTL, pp. 145–150, 221–278.

15 PTL, p. 74

16 ELMP, pp. 241–247, 256–260.

17 ELMP, p. 246.

18 ELMP, pp. 240, 244.

19 GTLS, pp. 153–155; PTL, pp. 267–271.

20 GTLS, pp. 155–156; PTL, pp. 271–276.

21 GTLS, pp. 371–372; PTL, pp. 330–331.

22 GTLS, p. 35; WJ, p. 273.

23 PTL, p. 5.

24 PTL, p. 74.

25 ELMP, pp. 216, 234, 261.

26 ELMP, pp. 230, 235, 271.

27 ELMP, pp. 234, 261.

28 PTL, p. 5.

29 PTL, pp. 33, 50–51, 62, 119.

30 PTL, p. 118.