The only purpose of the League of Democracies seems to be to legitimize war making by democracies in order to spread democracy!

Political Islam has reached a critical juncture on the road toward democratic legitimacy.

Change is rendered more difficult by the insufficient democratic legitimacy of EU bodies.

That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.

Second, a change of government through elections prompted reforms and gave them democratic legitimacy.

The forces conniving to oppose democracy responded by escalating the breakdown in the constitutional order and the legitimate exercise of power.

They do not believe that constitutional norms and representative democracy have primacy over values and legitimate popular grievances.

One is democracy, including elections and governments held to account by parliaments and ultimately the people.

It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of an initiative built on such flimsy legal foundations, and lacking democratic legitimacy.

They can be taken only by a body with democratic legitimacy analogous to that of a national parliament.

It is also complicated. Was George W. Bush the legitimately elected President of the United States in his first term, having gained office only after America s Supreme Court ordered an end to the Florida recount and with Bush having secured only a minority of the votes nationwide?

With no institutionalized democratic legitimacy, the PA is bound to rely on its security forces and on those of the occupier, Israel, to enforce its will.

Europe s national politicians routinely criticize the EU for its lack of democratic legitimacy, yet they bear part of the responsibility for it.

Second, a change of government through elections prompted reforms and gave them democratic legitimacy. Reform does not require a state of emergency, as is often argued.

Remedying them calls for a minimum of federalism and commensurate democratic legitimacy and thus for greater openness to institutional adaptation.

The current regime is clearly autocratic. Yet it aspires to democratic legitimacy in the eyes of Russian citizens and the international community.

Legitimacy and Elections

Despite the efforts made since 1988 by the OAS and the United Nations, it has not been possible to uphold the principle of democratic legitimacy in Haiti for more than short periods of time.

Recalls that the interdependence between a functioning democracy, strong and accountable institutions and effective rule of law is essential for a legitimate and effective Government that is respectful of human rights

The Group continues to receive reports of ongoing weapons flows and illegal armed group activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring States.

Finance s Crisis of Legitimacy

So legitimacy is more than legality.

C. Illegal migration

Colombia understands that we must be make haste to achieve the Millennium Development Goals so that in time we can achieve the democratic legitimacy that emerges from security, public freedoms, the independence of institutions and transparency.

Indeed, illegal immigration is larger when restrictions to legal migration are tight.

The question of legality will be examined below.

In the absence of an authoritative basis for a determination of an illegality, the unilateral assertion of illegality would be self serving and inimical to stability of relations.

In 2012, the NLD won 43 of the 44 seats that it contested, and the military accepted Suu Kyi as the reform movement s legitimate leader.

Democracy's values may be one sided on behalf of individual rights, but this has also made them universal, legitimizing the struggle against oppression, wherever it is played out.

But national governments remain reluctant to delegate authority in November 2004, the European Council accepted qualified majority voting on measures concerning illegal migration, but left restrictions on legal migration subject to unanimity rules, as if legal and illegal migration were not merely two sides of the same coin.

Change is rendered more difficult by the insufficient democratic legitimacy of EU bodies. The lack of a direct relationship with Europe s people deprives these bodies of the pressure required to bring about rapid action and responsive policies.

This Friday is being billed friday of delegitimization .

It lacks legitimacy and its members are unknown.

The regime s international legitimacy is equally in a shambles.

He writes, This regime just lost the little legitimacy that it had.

It is the only legitimate instrument of global governance that we have.

Even when well run, democracy took little interest in the distant future, aristocracy took little interest in the well being of those whom Simpson calls the little people, and monarchy took little interest in anything other than legitimate succession.

And, unlike Yugoslavia s successor states, which could look to Europe, the lack of a legitimate Arab democratic role model makes crafting a democratic order even more difficult.

Trade and immigration (legal and illegal), if left unchecked, will continue to exert downward pressure on rich countries labor markets.

What one might call the liberal order requires at least two institutional ingredients. One is democracy, including elections and governments held to account by parliaments and ultimately the people.

But what really matters is legitimacy and informed public opinion.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

Replace the word inadmissible with the word impermissible .

That represents a true deviation from the logic of international legality.

This process facilitates systemic change and political legitimacy.