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    Supports→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.

    The common good requires that authoritative institutions take action to specify, apply, and enforce rules on relevant matters.

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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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