Overview[1]#

Constitutional Order of a state and its strategic posture toward other states together form the inner and outer membrane of a state.

That membrane is secured by violence; without that security, a state ceases to exist. What is distinctive about the State is the requirement that the violence it deploys on its behalf must be legitimate; that is, it must be accepted within as a matter of law, and accepted without as an appropriate act of state sovereignty. Legitimacy must cloak the violence of the State, or the State ceases to be. Legitimacy, however, is a matter of history and thus is subject to change as new events emerge from the future and new understandings reinterpret the past. (Philip Bobbit)

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Legitimacy
• Sovereignty

• [#1] - The Garments of Court and Palace Machiavelli and the World That He Made (Kindle Locations 462-464).
• [#2] - Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers - based on information obtained 2016-09-23