Search results for: "legitimacy" (1038 results)
confer legitimacy on the practice of enforcing con- tracts “provide[] no moral basis for the idea that [consideration] is always re- quired.” 123 And
law’s “rationality” to the state, examine the legitimacy of legislative objectives, “weigh the benefits and harms” of statutes, “demand persuasive
] . . . of [the] material resources, social networks, and legitimacy re- quired for full political citizenship and for organizing local institutions to
to avoid insolvency and default while improving the legitimacy of those proceedings where they are absolutely necessary. * * * 366
likewise questioned the “legitimacy” of Seminole Rock, which (according to him) “effect[ed] a transfer of the judicial power to an executive agency” and
120: 1898 2 011 1986 statutes. Doing so would undermine the legitimacy and objectivity of judicial decisionmaking, and the federal interest in
that some scholars have expressed concern about both the legitimacy of dilution law’s goals and its effectiveness at achieving those goals.102 Our
Columbia v. Carter, 409 U.S. 418, 425-26 (1973); see also Kermit L. Hall, Political Power and Constitutional Legitimacy: The South Carolina Ku Klux
following text is less obvious than in constitutional law (where the obvious justification is democratic legitimacy). Consider the situation of a contract
serves to offer merely a veneer of legitimacy to justify convictions of poor and marginalized defendants); Carroll, supra note 334, at 599 (describing