Politics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Thought by H. Geoffrey Brennan, Loren E. Lomasky - Political Science - 1989 - Page 226
In other words, form, not content, determines a law's authenticity and the obligation to abide by it. Much of the confusion about the character of law ...

The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations by Thomas Martin Franck, Oxford University Press 1990 - Page 91
The assent of the Queen to an act of the British Parliament is an example of a cue symbolically validating the new law's authenticity. ...