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compel obedience

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3) Next, according to commonly accepted senses of the terms, execution is the act or instance of carrying out or performing something, and authority is the power to compel obedience or, in practical application, to issue orders.
The communist dictators who followed the tsars used brute force to compel obedience instead of religion.
 
 
 
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