By treating the confiscated slaves not as chattel property but as persons "held to labor," the bill implicitly endorsed the argument, long advanced by Republican political leaders, that there could be no legitimate property in human beings.
"With abortion, there can be no legitimate diversity of opinion," the archbishop wrote.
Some drugs are not found in supplements, and there can be no legitimate excuse of unknowing ingestion.
Other than permitting identification, there would appear to be no legitimate public interest in compelling people to expose their faces.
Mr. Bush rejected that, and in doing so he guaranteed that there could be no legitimate 43rd president.
"There can of course be no legitimate reason for planning and carrying out such acts, whether they knew of the intended targets or not".
"There should be no legitimate question as to our approach or our dedication to following the information no matter where it leads," he said.
And if no one can resolve the Florida battle outside of partisanship, then there can be no legitimate resolution, but only a victory of superior craft and power.
Alf Hitchcock, chief constable of the Ministry of Defence Police and lead on knife crime for the National Police Chiefs Councill, said: "These are absolutely horrific weapons for which there can be no legitimate use.
Last Friday, the groups wrote to the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, asking him to reconsider the matter, saying, "There can be no legitimate governmental reason for denying our access to the proceedings".
There can be no legitimate question that Mr. Fletcher was more than qualified to make the all-cash purchase of the apartment next to his own at the Dakota ., Mr. Fletcher claimed that after the board rejected a prominent couple in 2005, a board member joked that the man, who was Hispanic, wanted the first-floor apartment so he could easily buy drugs.
