Essays on Authority Page 2

“Authority and power are two different things: power is the force using which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.” – JACQUES MARITAIN, “The Democratic Charter,” Man and the State. There…

The authority of an agent refers to the actions they are permitted or authorized to take on behalf of their principal, actions that will legally bind the principal. Generally, the principal is only bound by the agent’s actions if they are within the agent’s authority. There are two types of authority that an agent may…