Takeovers have a legitimate function: to weed out weak companies.
"It is a legitimate function of art to provoke debate and sometimes to express controversial ideas," the artists wrote in a letter to The Guardian.
They argued that collective action clauses have a legitimate function: to help near-bankrupt countries reach debt restructuring agreements with a majority of their bondholders, with a minimum of legal fuss from investors holding out for a better deal.
These are the powers which they give to the central government, and this is what makes the justice system of governments a legitimate function of such governments.
Some secrecy agreements serve a legitimate function, but too many serve to conceal information from the public, law enforcement and persons that have or may have similar claims.
That is a legitimate function for an examination board to carry out, since pass marks ultimately are not set by computer programs or by statisticians but by the considered judgements of well-informed Boards of Examiners.
But trying to garrison Afghanistan with foreign troops would be even more expensive.The country needs a lot more than just military force, above all a legitimate and functioning government and a process to bring Taliban fighters and commanders back into the fold.
That choise evades a traditonal responsibility & denies the legitimate function of a political party in a democratic society.
Bradley Manning rested its case Wednesday with a Harvard law professor testifying that WikiLeaks performed a legitimate journalistic function when Private Manning gave it vast archives of secret government files.
There is clearly an occasional somewhat legitimate function for back-alley money transfers surrounding arms sales, commercial bribery or the provision of elegant retirement homes for deposed dictators whose job tenure is no longer in the interest of their former country or powerful outside forces.
