Legitimacy definition

Legitimacy as a goals or means

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Legitimacy. , it means a request based on the mutual agreement of individuals in the relationship. In the Finnish school context, teachers and students reach a mutual agreement towards the disciplines in a form of rules. Teachers act the role of navigating students’ behaviors and students consent to follow the rules; students have the freedom to express, to decide and influence the rule-making process which teachers should also respect.

Legitimacy means so many things, and is so dependent upon the eye of the beholder, that its use in discourse should probably be banned. Most objectionably, it is used as a way of critiquing legal rules from outside the system that produced those legal rules. That is, a commentator argues that, despite the impeccable positive law credentials of a particular legal rule, it is illegitimate. Or the commentator might argue, as some did with respect to the NATO intervention in Kosovo, that despite a duly established prohibitive legal rule, a violative action is legitimate. In each of these cases, the commentator stands outside an established process and offers his own view regarding the substantive or procedural qualities of the action, setting aside the law. But the commentator acts without particular authority, and does not apply authoritatively formulated standards for determining legitimacy: legitimacy analysis is thus, fundamentally, illegitimate.

Examples of Legitimacy in a sentence

• Legitimacy in sources discourse was produced not because Article 38 PCIJ Statute had the capacity to decisively tell whether a certain norm was one of public international law.

• Legitimacy derives from compliance with the obligation to ensure that all Colombians have full exercise of their fundamental rights, under the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality.

• People react favorably when they believe the police are benevolent, caring, and sincerely trying to do what is best.* Legitimacy flows from procedural justice.

• Legitimacy was produced via the invocation of the vocabulary of Article 38.

• He discusses this in relation to the false assumption that to determine that a state is legitimate, and to determine that a state is justified, ‘require[s] the very same arguments’: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Justification and Legitimacy, 122.

• Sunstein, C., “The Legitimacy of Constitutional Courts: Notes on Theory and Practice” EECR, Winter 1997, 61.

• Economic stagnation, mass unemployment, lack of diversification, 229 Jennifer Lambert, ‘Political Reform in Qatar: Participation, Legitimacy and Security’, Middle East Policy Council, Spring 2011, Volume XVIII, Number 1.

• Unless otherwise indicated, we shall use the term in its generic sense 37 For a discussion of these functions see ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ (1992), Legitimacy and the Military, The Yugoslav Crisis, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Publishers, London, chapter 2.

• Struggles over Legitimacy in the Eurozone Crisis: Discursive Legitimation Strategies and their Ideological Underpinnings.

• Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions’, British Journal of Criminology, 52, 6, 1051-1071.

More Definitions of Legitimacy

Legitimacy means consistent with the United States and Utah constitutions, federal and state law, and all rules and principles of a fair and just legal system.

Legitimacy means engendering public respect and support, promoting justice and ethical behavior. Judge advocates must be “competent, confident, caring, and courageous . . . grounded in values, and totally integrated into the Army.”6 They enhance the Army’s legitimacy by integrating society’s values into Army programs, operations, and decision- making processes.