sovereign is he who decides the null hypothesis
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That is true regardless of voting. But voting gives them "legitimacy" while we shouldn't legitimate any ruler, only tolerate his fastidious presence for a short period of time before kicking him away
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I think this frames for a semantic discussion over what we mean by "legitimacy." The insight in Eigen's comment is that regardless of how we define our terms, there is utility in having temporally constrained social consensus over who makes political decisions.
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