...the form of establishing a principle which, while it resides outside power and is independent of it, locates or embeds power in a realm of things beyond...originating principles have been many and diverse. So too have the ends. But in our time this great complexity has been reduced, in virtually all states,...

...active citizens exercise? Schaar's treatment is instructive. He says that authority is legitimate power: "All theories of legitimacy take the form of establishing...power: the legitimacy of power stems from its origin'' (1970: 287) — in other words, authority can be justified by its grounding in a constitution, divine...