American Revolution

[JohnDamian]

If they didn’t have legitimate authority to begin with why would they have legitimate authority now?

Legitimate authority springs from being the highest civil authority in a country. How one obtained that status is particularily irrelevant, as the majority of conquered or split states were illigitemately founded.

It seems you are admitting here that they all began as fake authorities.

The vast majority of states began illigitemately, as most of them becan either by conquest or by secession. However some states that legitemately dissolved from their unions were founded legitimately, I am particularily thinking of states that were founded after the dissolutions of the British Empire and the USSR, some of which were legitimately founded, as power was not stolen or siezed from existing supreme civil authorities.

 

[MindOverMatter2]

Legitimate authority springs from being the highest civil authority in a country. How one obtained that status is particularly irrelevant, as the majority of conquered or split states were illegitimately founded.

This cannot be the only grounds for legitimacy, its far too convenient and arbitrary. If a country is founded illegitimately, then it is illegitimate, and i think it will remain illegitimate; although perhaps the sin of that illegitimacy might not rest on the decedents.

However some states that legitimately dissolved from their unions were founded legitimately, I am particularly thinking of states that were founded after the dissolution of the British Empire and the USSR, some of which were legitimately founded, as power was not stolen or siezed from existing supreme civil authorities.

I guess I’m supposed to take you word for it. But, knowing the human lust for power, i suspect otherwise.