According to the University of Toronto political scientist Lynette Ong, who studies the patron-client relationship between local governments and thugs, goons are frequently used to execute decisions, especially in "the gray areas between legitimate state functions and illegitimate state policies," such as land expropriation and forced evictions.
"They're effectively arguing that the House bills are simply illegitimate because they contain policy measures that the Democrats don't like.
This move was seen as illegitimate by many drug policy researchers and an affront to religious freedom.
The proposed deal, known as T-TIP (for Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) would define well-established domestic policies as illegitimate restraints of "trade," including protections of workers, the environment, public health, and regulation of finance.
Therefore, when the idea of introducing anti-poverty programs emerged, first introduced under Bank President Robert McNamara (1968-1981) [ 53], board and staff members vehemently resisted the notion, seeing these types of policies as illegitimate and financially irresponsible (ibid).
"We stand today in this furious night to express our intense anger toward this damned policy by the illegitimate so-called Fayyad government," Ismail Radwan, a Hamas official, shouted.
Mr Kerry stated that the US "views all of the settlements as illegitimate" and had "communicated that policy very clearly to Israel".
Thus, if there is any means left to us for thwarting the government in its relentless march towards outright dictatorship, it may rest with the power of juries and local governments to invalidate governmental laws, tactics and policies that are illegitimate, egregious or blatantly unconstitutional.
The United States, the European Union and NATO all see both regions as part of Georgia, and so dismiss the elections as illegitimate.But some think this policy is counterproductive.
Secrecy provisions, they write, are "designed to relieve the Australian people of their responsibility for the implementation and outcomes of Australian refugee policy" and are an "illegitimate act of political closure".
