Category: Law, Constitution, and Jurisprudence

USE TRUE AND LAWFUL, NOT LEGITIMATE

(updated)(important)

LAWS are moral(true) or not(false). They are constructed correctly(truthfully) or not(falsely).

CONTRACTS are moral or immoral, Lawful or non-Lawful (capital L=Law Proper, lower l=legislation/command).

Contracts can be constructed by a moral process(Truthfully and Lawfully), or an immoral process (Deceitfully and UnLawfully).

Legitimacy is a justificationary moral term, just as Divinely is a theological term. it is a way of ‘hedging’ blame avoidance. The english word arises from a legitimate child: born of lawfully married parents.

The use of the term ‘legitimate’ (lawful, according to rules) evolved in the sense that the authorities have license to exercise violence, or that the construction of some contract or process. Ergo it means ‘moral license’. And from there to reflect the superiority of democratic opinion over natural law. So the term has been, like ‘liberal’ devolved into ‘by popular consent’.

In other words, in common language, it’s used as a soft-deception that claims moral intuition rather than moral truths justify the exercise of the resulting obligations and rights.

Hence why I use true/truthful and legal/lawful not ‘legitimate’.