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...

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...

a number of countries and individuals have challenged the political legitimacy of the state of Israel and/or its occupation of Arab territories. Over...

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...

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...

Suchman states three types of legitimacy: pragmatic legitimacy, moral legitimacy, and cognitive legitimacy. Pragmatic legitimacy relies upon the self-interests...

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...

The Legitimacy Theory of the Provisional Government (Korean: 임시정부 법통론 or 임정법통론; Hanja: 臨時政府 法統論 or 臨政法統論) claims that the Provisional Government of the...