The phrase "an underlying tenet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a fundamental principle or belief that serves as the foundation for a theory, argument, or system.
Example: "The concept of equality is an underlying tenet of democratic societies."
Alternatives: "a fundamental principle" or "a core belief".
But the Bush administration brief also appears to accept an underlying tenet of affirmative action: that some businesses have suffered as a result of their minority ownership.
That is what great businesses do, it is what entrepreneurs do, and it is an underlying tenet of the American dream — that anyone can make a difference and have an impact, and that "anyone" should be you.
The report's findings provided compelling evidence for an underlying tenet of President Johnson's conclusion that "improving the health and well being of the nation's poor required strategies aimed at ameliorating the effects of social, economic, and health disparities".
For the primary analysis, December 31 , 2007 had been chosen as a matter of convenience, but an underlying tenet of this method is that any date can be used, provided that a sufficient amount of follow-up time is available afterwards.
An underlying tenet of American federalism is that law enforcement is generally a matter for the states.
"An underlying tenet of the Wahhabi approach is this pan-Islamic sense that demands that converted people should be leached of their culture".
Geared toward ongoing organized criminal activities, the underlying tenet of RICO is to prove and prohibit a pattern of crimes conducted through an "enterprise," which the statute defines as "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity".
The underlying tenet of society, we come to understand, is that people are forbidden to be single.
Its underlying tenet -- that time exacerbates the problem -- means that the longer Congress squabbles about how to increase job growth, the more intractable the situation becomes.
The underlying tenet of our work is that neither of these trends will become fully mature without: (1) An understanding for how and why system entities are connected together, and (2) Formal procedures for assessing the correctness of system operations, estimating system performance, and understanding trade spaces involving competing design criteria.
The underlying tenet of this approach was supported by the current literature review.
