individual rights and organized social authority?

Question

what is individual rights?
what is organized social authority?
how do they tie together?
(in terms of theocracy)

Answer 1

Individual rights are the freedoms and liberties a person (individual) has -- that cannot be taken away.

Social authority is the collective power of the govt (or equivalent) to make rules and tell people what to do.

They interact in the areas where the authority is not allowed to regulate certain behavior -- if the behavior can be regulated or controlled, then it is a privilege not a right.

In a theocracy, the rules are usually set forth based on religious interpretation of some holy text. But more importantly, the authority is claimed to come from some divine source (God) -- hence, the concept of any behavior being something the authority cannot control (i.e. it being an absolute right) usually doesn't exist.