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