Private and official decisions mutually constitute each other in a non-linear loop.

Evidence

There are elements of a chicken-and-egg relationship between private decisions and official decisions in the flow of social living which defy any facile description of the process. Two broad conclusions, however, seem warranted: t. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 953

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Even the most private decisions presuppose and are shaped by prior institutional arrangements. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 949; Any private decision can be converted into a group appeal. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 945; Private and public autonomy must mutually enable each other in a self-stabilizing cycle — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 86 (+5 more)

Broader Connections