Unsurprisingly, Schmitt rejected the project of creating an international legal order based on a 'discriminating concept of war' that would subject the use of force on the part of sovereign states to substantive criteria of moral legitimacy and external legal control.
The reference to private autonomy is meant to substitute for other legitimacy, based on substantive quality or democratic process.
As with the Red Lobster waitress who turned out to be a giant liar, the jury is out on this story until more substantive proof of this incident's legitimacy is revealed.
Democracy, as a set of procedures, can secure legitimacy in the absence of more substantive commonalities between citizens and achieve social integration.
But by the end of the week, the reports of cheating were so numerous, and so substantive, that they could seriously undermine any claims to legitimacy by the eventual winner, whoever it is.
Finally, Part V assesses the future by focusing on common failure modes for claims resolution facilities and then proposes possible substantive standards and procedural rules that may increase the legitimacy of claims resolution facilities.
According to Rawls (1993: 225), "[i]n justice as fairness, and I think in many other liberal views, the guidelines of inquiry of public reason, as well as its principle of legitimacy, have the same basis as the substantive principles of justice".
And despite the hand-wringing that occurs at the upper echelons of the Communist Party over incidents like Deng's death — not because someone died, of course, but because such things come perilously close to threatening the Party's legitimacy — there has been little effort made at substantive reform.
Others argue that legitimacy depends exclusively or at least in part on the substantive values that are realized.
Either the democratic institutions allow for more substantive participation in the deliberative process, enabling the political representation to regain legitimacy by listening to and interacting with citizens and voters, or the crisis will persist and institutions will lose legitimacy and efficiency.
