Political legitimacy requires free speech, association, and representation

Evidence

There is no extant model of the most minimal plausibility which suggests that such legitimacy could be sustained other than momentarily and in extreme crisis without at least freedom of political speech and association and the right to organize and choose political representatives on the basis of the opinions which citizens actually hold. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1248

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what does the author count as a model of legitimacy — and would the doctor’s wife’s improvised order in Blindness qualify as a ‘momentary and extreme crisis’ legitimacy?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1248
• XREF: connects to: Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355; Philosophical convictions require cogency, seriousness, cohesion, and democratic respect — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9216; Legitimacy can be derived from constitutional practices rather than from justifications. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 15 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard #qualifies (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355
• Legitimacy can be derived from constitutional practices rather than from justifications. #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 15
• Political representation actively constitutes the class it claims to express #expands (0.80)
• Legal legitimacy is structural contingency, not shared conviction #qualifies (0.80)
• Philosophical convictions require cogency, seriousness, cohesion, and democratic respect #expands (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 9216