According to the standard or traditional account, those who hold political authority legitimately have a right to rule that entails an obligation of obedience on the part of those who are subject to their authority. In recent decades, however, and in part in response to philosophical anarchism, a number of philosophers have challenged the standard account by reconceiving authority in ways that break or weaken the connection between political authority and obligation. This paper argues against these revisionist accounts in two ways: first, by pointing to defects in their conceptions of authority; and second, by sketching a fair-play approach to authority and political obligation that vindicates the standard account.

中文翻译：

---

权威、合法性和遵守法律的义务

根据标准或传统的说法，那些合法地拥有政治权力的人有权进行统治，这意味着服从其权力的人有服从的义务。然而，近几十年来，为了回应哲学上的无政府主义，许多哲学家通过以破坏或削弱政治权威与义务之间联系的方式重新认识权威来挑战标准解释。本文从两个方面反驳这些修正主义的说法：一是指出他们的权威观念存在缺陷；其次，通过对权威和政治义务的公平竞争方法，以证明标准账户是正确的。