ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to distinguish two questions which are easy to confuse: that of the nature of authority, and that of what makes authority legitimate. The issue of moral legitimacy can arise over the existence of an entire legal system or it can arise over the existence of specific rules of law within the system. Students often argue for representation on the grounds that their representatives should always be present to negotiate on their behalf and that this will be more sympathetically done by one of their own number. The university authorities, on the other hand, often fear that if student representation comes about the interests of students or their values will be over-stressed in senate deliberations. A group of such representatives can form themselves into a corporate person which, like the individual representative, can also act on behalf of others, furthering their interests and displaying values which the majority can share.
