legitimate government

collocation in English

meaningsoflegitimateandgovernment

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legitimate
adjective
uk
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us
/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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government
noun
uk
/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us
/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandgovernmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegitimate government

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Legitimategovernmentinterests may outweigh it.
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Once inside the accepted sphere oflegitimategovernmentactivity, zoning commissions would displace judges in the oversight of private rights in urban areas.
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This also means, of course, helping thislegitimategovernmentby setting a good example ourselves.
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If they did not, they would not have consent and would not deliver politicallylegitimategovernment.
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Elected presidents with legally defined powers replaced the rule of absolutist monarchs and the idea of citizenship emerged for the first time as the basic principle oflegitimategovernment.
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At the level of justification, this involves the claim that "alegitimategovernmentis one whose authority citizens can recognise while still regarding themselves as equal, autonomous, rational agents" (14f.).
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Alegitimategovernmentis required which will respect rights and fundamental freedoms, in other words, show respect for human beings.
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It is folly to talk about the bertrayal of alegitimategovernmentwhen that government has gone.
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They mean a man who has supported thelegitimategovernmentof his country when it was thelegitimategovernmentand when there was no question of it being anything else.
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Alegitimategovernmenthas to close all three gaps.
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These attempts have so far failed, but it is indeed difficult to ask alegitimategovernmentto negotiate as equals with armed rebels.
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Because they supported thelegitimategovernmentof their country when it was the recognised government of their country, and did not support the rebels.
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Thelegitimategovernmentshould spread its authority over the whole nation, he said in one interview.
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By refusing to give his full support to thelegitimategovernment, his credibility was undermined.
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This test requires that the governmental action be rationally related to alegitimategovernmentinterest.
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Here alegitimategovernmentinterest is enough to pass this review.
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This analysis requires that the law being challenged must be rationally related to alegitimategovernmentgoal or purpose.
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Its scope may be limited by other rights or by a law in pursuit of alegitimategovernmentpurpose....
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In contrast, rational basis scrutiny merely requires that a challenged statute be reasonably related to alegitimategovernmentinterest.
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In the broadest sense, it also includes fire departments, prisons, the executive, and legislatures aslegitimategovernmentfunctions.
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However, content-neutral regulations of speech with alegitimategovernmentinterest are subject to a more deferential standard of review.
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In this case, the law is constitutional so long as it is reasonably related to alegitimategovernmentinterest.
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The law only mentions impeachment followed with a conviction as a possible way of removing certain servinglegitimategovernmentofficials.
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The absence of elected leaders at local level andlegitimategovernmentstructures has been one of the reasons for the stagnation in implementing much of the reconstruction and development programme.
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With the defeat of the rebellion, both liberals and absolutists came out into the streets to celebrate the survival of thelegitimategovernment.
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