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legitimacy of longstanding presidential practice, a principle that the Court treats as “stronger in the foreign affairs arena” than in other contexts.29
in schools has increased. The introduction of students’ rights in school discipline “undermined the legitimacy of a school’s moral authority more
rights advocates do not accept the legitimacy of government regulatory activity. From their point of view, Euclid, with its one-vote majority
Linden’s adherence to fair procedures in important individual cases, rather than ruling on the legitimacy of its land practices in general or trying to hear
dangerous. The legitimacy of the Guidelines is derived from the belief that they are based on reliable data and principles. However, when the Terrorism
the state and the legitimacy of state processes. Both decisions locate enforcement authority in courts. Both rely on lawyers, deployed as witnesses
1990). 5. For the particular version of the right, see ALLEN BUCHANAN, JUSTICE, LEGITIMACY, AND SELF- DETERMINATION: MORAL FOUNDATIONS FOR
a Democrat. In such cases, the political actions of these actors have a certain democratic legitimacy. This is different in kind, however, from the
separation of powers undermines both the legal legitimacy of the Court and the democratic legitimacy of the political branches, the republican separation
the Supreme Court in 1886 offered a remarkable bit of dicta exhorting Congress to legislate in the field and preclearing the legitimacy of such