Abstract
Abstract Contemporary legal philosophers have focussed their attention on two aspects of law’s authority: the issue of legitimacy (or the right to govern) and the issue of obligation (or the duty to obey). John Finnis proposes the importance of a third issue: the problem of governance (or the duty to govern). This chapter explores the nature of this duty, its foundations, and its relation to the other aspects of a theory of authority. It concludes with discussion of the question of whether one who has a primary duty to govern may nonetheless delegate that duty to others.
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