Let me make my case that 'USG is now illegitimate' short and sweet.
The marks of sovereignty are, traditionally, 'the power of life and death' -- for example, to conscript citizens to defend the Common Good and send them off to die in wars, to execute criminals...
... and secondly, the magisterial right of command (imperium) -- to lay down (constitute, as in constitutions), the legal framework, i.e. to legislate and to execute that legislation.
These are called, in Western Civilisation, 'The Two Swords of the King'...
When the Sovereign People lose the right to declare and prosecute wars -- and they have, by losing the power to elect Congress -- they have lost DOMINION.
When they have lost the power for states to sue each other in SCOTUS, and propose constitutional amendments and pass them --
-- and they HAVE -- then WE THE PEOPLE, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, are no longer the Sovereign, and the constitution of the State is no longer that of a Republic.
It is something else -- a tyranny ruled by a Party.
In effect, a communist dictatorship ruled by commissars.
Whatever you can say about USG, 'legitimate' is not it.
This is not a crisis *LIMITED* to the illegitimacy of Biden as a president -- it is now an ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT that has no authority (from We, The People) to fix itself.
How do we know the truth of some abstract proposition such as 'The Republic has fallen'?
When you as a PEOPLE no longer control the LEGISLATURE, not when you no longer control the EXECUTIVE that carries out the LEGISLATURE'S commands.
The supreme power in the state is the ability to legislate (that is one of the two sovereign swords) -- and war-making powers.
The American People can no longer stop (or start) wars. They cannot command /their own/ military. They cannot resolve disputes between THEIR states.
In short, the two Instruments of Power (military and legislative) have been TAKEN from them.
The SOVEREIGN PEOPLE has been deposed, and the constitution of the Federal Representative Republic is no longer a Republic, no longer Repping, and no longer a Federation of anything.
It is not a Republic because Congress, with Dominion and similar voting machines, is not accountable to the people of any state, nor will the tyrannical ruling Uniparty 'give the People the right to vote'. The PARTY (CCP) is Sovereign, not the American People.
It is not Representative, because the Legislatures of at least six states, and Congress, no longer answer to the will of the People, nor do they have the 'Republican form' guaranteed to all 50 states by the Constitution.
And it is no longer 'Federal', because the Supreme Court has seen fit to deny states the right to sue each other, in the only jurisdiction that is possible, rendering 'Federalism' a dead letter.
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The current SCOTUS theory of sovereignty is probably best described (as you might guess) as 'governmental sovereignty' vs 'popular sovereignty' (or state sovereignty, which is ambiguous under the 1789 Constitution -- leading to a great deal of subsequent conflict)
In this formalist view, which I do not suport, the USG is sovereign *over* the people, and as sovereign, can make new constitutions (novellae, in Justinian's Latin phrase...) *for* the People.
This is, in the end, a theory of Imperium, only not Constantine's *Christian* Imperium
Censorship is a form of Ignoratio Elenchi -- it frames the public argument so that facts and evidence are ignored, and the argument of one's dialectical opponent (in a debate) is suppressed and ignored.
It is a form of Willful Ignorance -- what Nicholas of Cusa called ...
The Puritan Legislature (of Virginia) surrendered to (friendly) Cromwellian troops in March 1651/1652 - date ambiguity because the calendar year started Mar25
The Monarchist Executive retired to 'resist' on behalf of Charles II, successfully returning to power in 1660.
Neither side was later proud of all that happened in the 1650s -- the Puritans because they eventually lost, and the Cavaliers because they *eventually* lost and the Whig Interpretation of History edited their wins out.
A historical comparison is in order (another thread). In the 1650s, America participated in the English Civil War -- yes we did. New England was a Puritan haven so not much happened there. Maryland and Virginia were split, and both sides fought a war...
In the first American Revolution the (future) Whigs arrived on ships, and declared a Republic. They were fought by Monarchists. The monarchists eventually won (in 1660) and the Republican traitors were hanged in the Old Dominion (Virginia)
That was the first 'Convention Parliament' in England (1660).
The second was the Glorious Revolution of 1688/1689, and the Convention Parliament that 'invited' William of Orange to be Monarch -- including of the Dominion of New England, which now wished to be free of Tory Rule.