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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entailing(as whether one claim necessarily requires another)
Logically requiring something to follow; if A is true, then A entails B means B must also be true.
justificatory standard(in evaluating laws and authority)
A measure or test for deciding whether something (like a law or rule) is fair and reasonable; it's the criteria you use to explain why something is okay.
reasonable citizens(in Rawls's theory of justice)
People who think fairly, care about others' rights, and are willing to follow rules that benefit everyone—not just themselves.