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    It is not the case that Political legitimacy should be understood as what creates political authority, not merely what justifies it.

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    • 1.Raz's service conception holds that authority is legitimate when it helps subjects conform to reasons that already apply to them independently.
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    • 2.If authority merely tracks pre-existing reasons, legitimacy justifies rather than creates the normative force of political obligations.
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    • 3.The 'creation' framing illicitly smuggles in a Hobbesian voluntarism that Raz's influential account explicitly rejects as the wrong model.
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    • 1.Rawls treats legitimacy as a justificatory standard—coercion is legitimate when principles could be accepted by reasonable citizens—without entailing that legitimacy itself generates authority.
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    • 2.The distinction between creation and justification collapses if political authority derives from natural duties of justice that exist prior to any legitimating act or institution.
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    • 1.The problem of legitimacy centrally involves the justification of coercion.
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    • 2.Legitimacy must therefore explain the grounds under which coercive power is permissible, which is a creative rather than merely justificatory role.
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