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Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World

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Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World - Applbaum, Arthur Isak
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What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.

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Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World 2019, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674983465

Hardcover