- Look up
legitimacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Legitimacy, from the
Latin legitimare meaning "to make lawful", may
refer to:
Legitimacy (criminal...
- In
political science,
legitimacy is the
right and
acceptance of an authority,
usually a
governing law or a regime.
Whereas authority denotes a specific...
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Legitimacy, in
traditional Western common law, is the
status of a
child born to
parents who are
legally married to each other, and of a
child conceived...
- In
common law, the "presumption of
legitimacy" is a
legal presumption that
states that a
child born
within the
subsistence of a
marriage is
presumed to...
- The
legitimacy under international law of the 1999 NATO
bombing of the
Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia has been questioned. The UN
Charter is the foundational...
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Police legitimacy is the
extent to
which members of the
public view the
police as
higher power authority figure,
often measured in
terms of the public's...
- a
number of
countries and
individuals have
challenged its
political legitimacy, its
occupation of Arab territories, or both. Over the
course of the Arab–Israeli...
- An open
standard is a
standard that is
openly accessible and
usable by anyone. It is also a
common prerequisite that open
standards use an open license...
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Synthetic cannabinoids are a
class of
designer drug
molecules that bind to the same
receptors to
which cannabinoids (THC, CBD and many others) in cannabis...
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Suchman states three types of
legitimacy:
pragmatic legitimacy,
moral legitimacy, and
cognitive legitimacy.
Pragmatic legitimacy relies upon the self-interests...
