ABSTRACT
The all-subjected principle calls for including the subjects of binding decisions. This chapter offers a general account of what makes decisions binding. The first part of the chapter examines and ultimately rejects as irrelevant the notion of morally binding decisions. The remaining sections go on to detail the conditions under which decisions claim to be binding. Normative systems that claim legitimate authority insist on the moral right to regulate behavior. When sufficiently recognized as authoritative, normative systems that claim legitimate authority are de facto authorities. The thesis of this chapter is that the all-subjected principle applies to the subjects of associations with de facto authority.
