権利
RIGHT(けんり)[/raɪt/]名詞
解説
付記
では、王国の支配者はいかなる権利によって 統治するのか。 その地位と権力の認可は誰のものか。 神の意に反して、 玉座に居座り続けたり、 大統領の椅子で安全に誇示したりできる者は、 ロバのように頑固だろう。 存在するものはすべて神聖な権利によって そうなのである。 起こることはすべて、神がそう望んでいるのだ。 まったく! 神の計画を愚か者が妨げたり、 悪党が抵抗したりできるなら、 それは驚くべきことだ! もしそうなら、神は(悪気はないが) 過失相殺の罪を負うことになる、と私は言おう。
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Original
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. The first of these rights was once universally believed to be derived directly from the will of God; and this is still sometimes affirmed in partibus infidelium outside the enlightened realms of Democracy; as the well known lines of Sir Abednego Bink, following:
Additional notes
By what right, then, do royal rulers rule? Whose is the sanction of their state and pow'r? He surely were as stubborn as a mule Who, God unwilling, could maintain an hour His uninvited session on the throne, or air His pride securely in the Presidential chair. Whatever is is so by Right Divine; Whate'er occurs, God wills it so. Good land! It were a wondrous thing if His design A fool could baffle or a rogue withstand! If so, then God, I say (intending no offence) Is guilty of contributory negligence.