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defendants are entitled to challenge the legitimacy of the individual plaintiff’s individual claim, in a class action, defendants are entitled to the
the principle that the President, as the source of electoral legitimacy in the executive branch, should have the prerogative to direct the actions of
political legitimacy based on democratic process- es). the limits of enumeration 619 absence of as significant an occurrence as the adoption
intellectual legitimacy for transportation deregulation generally. In her expansive history of the development of the “economic style” in American
despite the Court’s aversion to the word. Finally, this Note seeks to bolster the legitimacy of structural argument as an interpretive practice
arguments about the legitimacy of a state’s rules over conduct on its soil, the fact of the matter is that states will always insist—with brute force if
marriages and the legitimacy of children—had important ramifications for secular affairs. Consequently, from the eleventh century forward, secular courts
respect, perhaps fostering a sense of legitimacy and entitlement? Historically, the expansion of central-state authority has not necessarily, or
surprisingly durable. See Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Legitimacy and the Constitution, 118 HARV. L. REV. 1787, 1829 (2005) (“Bush v. Gore has had almost
Land Controls as a Problem of Local Legitimacy, 71 CALIF. L. REV. 837 (1983) (describing and critiquing these limitations on local