Kant argued that legitimate political authority must be grounded in principles all rational agents could autonomously endorse, not in historically contingent acts of a founding genius.

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Autonomously endorse(describing how people should relate to legitimate political principles): Freely agree with or accept something based on your own thinking and judgment, not because you're forced or manipulated.
Founding genius(as an example of what shouldn't provide the basis for legitimate authority): An exceptionally brilliant individual who establishes or creates something (like a government), often suggesting a great leader or founder.
Historically contingent(as used in metaphysics and social philosophy): Something that exists only because of specific facts about history; it could have been completely different if history had gone another way.
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.

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