How does Plato Machiavelli and Locke address the concept of power authority and legitimacy?

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Plato segregated them as different concepts where power is the capacity, authority is the duty combined with capacity while legitimacy is the approval of the same by the society to exercise power . Locke concluded that power has unlimited scope, while authority and legitimacy are bounded by the limits of governing or the power issuing framework.

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