RAD criteria for illegitimate government DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican · Oct 19 The criteria itself, from one of the thousands of docs I scraped.
[Image] Democratic legitimacy is not simply a legal status. It is the recognized authority of a government to make binding decisions on behalf of the people, resting on the consent of the governed as expressed through free and fair processes. A government can be legally in office while being democratically illegitimate. The distinction matters for everything that follows, and it also creates a danger: a term that everyone can invoke and no one has defined becomes a weapon for whichever side is losing. The next section supplies the definitions. This one states the conditions.
A federal government crosses the threshold into illegitimacy when one or more of the following conditions obtain, as determined under the standards set out below:
· Elections are manipulated or suppressed, or their results overturned outside the processes prescribed by law, such that the composition of government no longer reflects the certified will of the electorate · A sitting executive continues to exercise the powers of the office after the constitutional end of the term, or takes actions designed to prevent a lawfully elected successor from assuming power
