It became illegitimate for city officials to work with gang members or reforming gang members, at the very moment that a historic gang peace process needed to be nourished.
Its citizens no longer believe that their government is legitimate, and the state becomes illegitimate in the eyes of the international community.
Thus the point at which legitimate force becomes illegitimate violence is determined by the symbolic power invested in the state.
For if a political authority is duly constituted in the way Locke describes but fails to offer its citizens a right of exit or imposes severe burdens on people who wish to exit, it will become illegitimate over time, according to Locke.
In both cases, they become illegitimate when they serve little or no purpose other than avoiding taxes.
Consequently, the idea of tolerance implies the necessity, for the dissenting group or individuals, to become illegitimate if and when the established legitimacy prevents and counteracts the development of dissent.
The state has been the chief holder of external sovereignty since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, after which interference in other states' governing prerogatives became illegitimate.
Here, the question for values of f(Q) in a P-measurement situation does become illegitimate, since f(Q)'s being well-defined is tied to a Q-measurement situation.
"You're hurting the legitimate little guy, but there's so much piracy and illegitimate product out there it becomes an interesting challenge for them," said Marshal Cohen, a retail analyst at the NPD Group, based in Port Washington, N.Y.
On the level of institutions it becomes important to distinguish the legitimate from the illegitimate functions of institutions and to make the corresponding distinction for the uses of force by these institutions.
