By showing the way in which legitimacy is established and maintained in a constitutional system like ours, I hoped to derive solutions to a number of classical questions, all of which, I believe, are at bottom questions about legitimacy and legitimation. … At the same time, I also wished to propose a way of understanding constitutional law that changed its relationship to jurisprudence, as practiced nowadays, rendering some

DEFINE: This framing recasts familiar constitutional questions as fundamentally about legitimacy — a reframing worth applying to other legal/political contexts.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 16