@christowner

"These delegates are endowed with certain rights over personal property, and the right to enforce that."
These are "Rights" that no one has as an individual, and therefore cannot rightfully delegate to another.
The only thing that legitimizes these extrahuman "rights" when exercised by governments is the belief in the false idea that the group has the right to negate the rights of the individual.

I'm not sure which moral context you are operating from.
How do you define what is legitimate?
I can understand defining actions by what they are.
i.e. consensual or not, coercive or not, honest or not etc