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the preferences a veneer of “legitimacy that derive[s] from [their] appearance of inevitability.” DUNCAN KENNEDY, A CRITIQUE OF ADJUDICATION 248
emerges as the prime guarantor of democratic legitimacy. But like most structuralist election law scholars, Issacharoff and Pildes evaluate
prosecutions by coaching their clients to plead guilty quickly. Their presence gives the proceedings a false legitimacy, as these systems are designed to
question the legitimacy of the concept, see Paul A. Boghossian, What Is Social Construction?, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (Feb. 23, 2001), http://www.the
political. The conception of the market as a “spontaneous order” is a useful con- struct for defenders of the status quo because it lends legitimacy to the
also harm the legitimacy of the agency’s ordinary process. Second, this study shows that implementing trade agreements is not as sim- ple the
procedures? With what sort of legitimacy? Similar questions arise in assessing the ways in which We the People have made amends over the centuries. For
has not been put similarly to doubt, the legitimacy of lawmaking and law-applying international institutions—like the United Nations Security Council
appropriate here for the inquiry to extend beyond the facial neutrality of the order,” a “conventional” look at the facial legitimacy of the policy would have
Rationalization for Oligarchy There is also a question of democratic legitimacy. The mandate was enacted by Congress after a big, public, political