I don’t care what you want; just do what I say!”

The legitimacy of modern authorities is grounded not in the self-grounding decision of the sovereign. 

It is grounded in the ability of authorities to muster coherent chains of reasons to subjects about why they are fit to govern. 

Modern regimes hence always claim to speak not out of ignorance of what subjects deeply enjoy (“I don’t care what you want; just do what I say!”) but in the very name of subjects’ freedom and enjoyment.