Fig. 1 A tree structure following the legitimate order for k=2 and n=3.
In the short term, the humanitarian medical model itself can provide a crucial tool kit for restoring the legitimate order to our prisons.
His call for a referendum on the constitution on December 15th will allow for fresh parliamentary elections and define a legitimate new order.
"I didn't know what really happened, whether it was a legitimate court order or something else," Yusuf said, of the cancellation of the second parliament.
After U.S. troops left, he enjoyed sufficient political strength and military security to strike the kind of political deal that could have consolidated a legitimate Iraqi order.
The so-called "inter-Congolese dialogue," aimed at devising a legitimate constitutional order to fill the chaotic void left by the longtime despot Mobutu Sese Seko, was to have been a central component of the failed 1999 peace accord.
Rousseau contrasts a legitimate social order with a system of rules that is merely the expression of power.
Given this assumption, a legitimate international order must be able to accommodate a plurality of political communities with different, self-determined political identities.
Churches are no more than voluntary associations without any right to use force within a legitimate political order based on the consent of the governed.
A legitimate international order is one "in which effective, representative states avoid domination whether by another state, or by a non-state body and seek to enable other states to be effective and representative too" (73).
Pettit's account presupposes the legitimacy of domestic democracies that ensure nondomination as a starting point for thinking about a legitimate international order, and he explicitly rejects the idea of a world state, modeled on a domestic republican regime, as an infeasible remedy for the challenges posed by domination in an international context (2010, 81; but see Koenig-Archibugi 2011).
