!!! Overview[1]
[{$pagename}] 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|Legitimacy]; 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
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* [#1] - [The Garments of Court and Palace Machiavelli and the World That He Made|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B009W6VK70/windleyofente-20|target='_blank'] (Kindle Locations 462-464).
* [#2] - [Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers|http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/09/self-sovereign_identity_and_the_legitimacy_of_permissioned_ledgers.shtml|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2016-09-23