Living as members of society and dependent for the satisfaction of most of our needs on various forms of cooperation with others, we depend for the effective pursuit of our aims clearly on the correspondence of the expectations concerning the actions of others on which our plans are based with what they really will do. This matching of the intentions and expectations that determine the actions of different individuals is the form which order manifests itself in social life. … [The] … authoritarian connotation of the concept of order derives … from the belief that order can only be created by forces outside the systems (or “exogenously”). It does not apply to an equilibrium set up from within (or “endogenously”).

The law is the creation of the authoritative decisions of society, that is, its officials, its legislators, and judges. In relation to the making and applying of the law, though, the members of a legal order are merely its subjects. …. By contrast, a society's morality is the joint product of the moralities of its individual members. As far as its content is concerned, individual members are its joint makers, not merely its subjects.