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    A concretized legal rule is morally normative because the moral principle that the common good requires authoritative institutions to specify, apply, and enforce rules on relevant matters presumptively and defeasibly entails such normativity.

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    • 1.The common good requires that authoritative institutions take action to specify, apply, and enforce rules on relevant matters.
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    • 2.The foundational principles of practical reason define the fundamental content of the common good.
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    • 3.A concretized rule takes its place within a scheme of practical reasoning grounded in those foundational principles.
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    • 1.Legal normativity derives from social facts about recognition and acceptance, not from moral principles, per Hart's rule of recognition.
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    • 2.A rule can be legally valid and generate genuine obligations without tracking the common good or any moral principle.
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    • 3.Conflating legal validity with moral normativity collapses the analytical distinction positivism requires for jurisprudential clarity.
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    • 1.Raz's service conception holds that authority is legitimate only when subjects better conform to pre-existing reasons by following it, not merely because it specifies moral principles.
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    • 2.A concretized legal rule issued by a corrupt or epistemically deficient institution fails the normal justification thesis, defeating presumptive normativity.
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    • 3.The claim's 'presumptive and defeasible' qualification smuggles in precisely the institutional competence conditions it needs but cannot derive from the common good alone.
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    Key Terms

    Authoritative institutions(who specifies and enforces rules)
    Established organizations (like governments or courts) that have legitimate power to make and enforce decisions.
    Concretized(describing how a legal rule becomes concrete)
    Made specific and real rather than abstract or theoretical; applied to an actual situation.
    Defeasibly(indicating the moral principle can have exceptions)
    In a way that can be overruled or cancelled out by new information or circumstances; not absolute.
    Morally normative(describing the nature of legal rules)
    Something that establishes how people should act based on what's right or wrong; it tells us what we ought to do.
    Presumptively(how the moral principle applies)
    Based on what appears to be true unless proven otherwise; assumed to be the case by default.
    common good(Mill's criterion for evaluating the quality of government in Considerations on Representative Government)
    The promotion of the moral, intellectual, and active traits of citizens, understood in broadly consequentialist or result-oriented terms.
    entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
    Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.

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    That is to say: the concretized rule is (morally as well as legally) normative because such normativity is (presumptively and defeasibly) entailed by the (moral) principle that the common good (whose fundamental content is given by the foundational principles of practical reason: 1.1) requires that authoritative institutions take action to specify, apply and enforce some rules on the relevant matters. Social facts make a positive legal rule a reason for action because the desirability of authori
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