Legitimacy and two roles for flourishing in politics.

II.IIThe legitimacy objection The basic idea behind the legitimacy objection is that considerations about flourishing are not the right basis to ground the state's moral authority, and the state has the authority to promote only what grounds its moral authority. For citizens compose the state, and so it might seem that if the state has a duty, then the citizens must I also i have that duty by virtue of their composing the state. Perfectionists hold that it is legitimate for the state to seek to promote flourishing, while anti-perfectionists hold that undertaking state action to promote flourishing is beyond the legitimate scope of state authority. Correspondingly, non-perfectionist justifications of state authority will not legitimate perfectionist exercises of state authority - such exercises extend the state's authority without furthering non-perfectionist goals. First, the legitimacy objection only claims that legitimate state authority cannot be grounded on the mere promotion of flourishing, while Simmons more expansively claims that legitimate state authority can only be grounded on people's consent. [Extracted from the article]