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    It is not the case that Dworkin's 'law as integrity' demonstrates that identifying legal directives as authoritative just is a matter of substantive moral and political reasoning, yet authority functions meaningfully under this account.

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    • 1.If authority reduces to moral reasoning, then disagreement about substantive justice becomes disagreement about what law requires—eliminating authority's distinctive role.
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    • 2.Dworkin's account cannot explain why non-ideal legal systems (with unjust rules) retain binding force independent of their moral content.
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    • 3.Making judicial decisions hostage to 'the best interpretation' of integrity obscures rather than clarifies law's claim to settle disputes definitively.
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    • 1.Law's legitimacy depends on whether norms cohere with principled moral reasoning, not mere institutional pedigree or command structures.
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    • 2.Authority remains meaningful because integrity demands consistency: prior legal commitments constrain present judicial interpretation in principled ways.
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    • 3.Citizens can rationally defer to legal directives when they embody the best moral interpretation of a community's constitutional commitments.
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