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The paper responds to critiques of Constitutional Civic Realism and defends a structural view of legitimacy.

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Legitimacy, Moral Injury, and Institutional Constraint: A Response to Becker-Inflected Moral–Ecological Critiques of Constitutional Civic Realism

JMJohn C. MatylonekUniversity of Minnesota

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The paper responds to critiques of Constitutional Civic Realism and defends a structural view of legitimacy.
Analysis of Becker-inflected critiques of Constitutional Civic Realism
Evaluation of legitimacy theory in relation to moral injury
Discussion of institutional constraints and their implications for legitimacy
Moral injury serves as a strong diagnostic tool for understanding domination.
Legitimacy is framed as a structural condition rather than a strict moral benchmark.
A comparative and falsifiable account of institutional constraint is essential for legitimacy theory.

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This paper responds to Becker-inflected moral–ecological critiques of Constitutional Civic Realism (CCR). It argues that while moral injury provides a powerful diagnostic of domination, legitimacy theory must retain a comparative, falsifiable account of institutional constraint. The paper defends legitimacy as a non-ideal, structural condition rather than a moral threshold.

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