legitimacy

How To Use legitimacy In A Sentence

• To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
• The fee they were paid by the Hamburg firm of WeshiemMunden GmbH had been sufficient evidence of the order's legitimacy. CORMORANT
• But, generally, the right uniform confers an aura of authority and legitimacy on even the most questionable of occupations.
• But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state.
• Accreditation also serves as a marker of legitimacy, and students from unaccredited institutions may have difficulty transferring credits to other institutions or entering graduate or professional programs.
• Questioning the legitimacy or constitutional propriety of an action by the executive is a useful device for the opposition.
• Pius IX had already refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Italy; and Catholics had been formally enjoined to abstain from voting in national elections.
• The hereditary president of the Confederation and commander of its troops was the King of Prussia, who embodied the principle of monarchical legitimacy.
• A colorable claim is something that may not be legitimate but merely appears to have legitimacy.
• himself the father, thus lessening the force of the illegitimacy. SPLITTING