"legitimate conception" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a conception that is viewed as valid or lawful in a particular context. For example, "The religious authorities only recognize a legitimate conception that is the result of a marriage between two individuals."
One might adopt a pluralistic stance that recognizes distinct legitimate conceptions.
This is a particularly thin conception of legitimate authority.
An example is Raz' service conception of legitimate authority (section 2.1).
This does seem to be moving towards a genuinely democratic conception of legitimate authority.
This understanding of rights links Kant's conception of legitimate political authority to the justification of coercion.
The basic idea behind the democratic conception of legitimate authority is that when there are disagreements among persons about how to structure their shared world together and it is important to structure that world together, the way to choose the shared aspects of society is by means of a decision making process that is fair to the interests and opinions of each of the members.
First, we can appeal to perfectly general conceptions of legitimate authority.
A third conceptual account of authority or set of conceptions of legitimate authority involves the idea that the authority has a right to rule.
This will come in conjunction with the kickoff of an online auction house with the meta-goal of supporting the support of art that challenges conceptions of "legitimate" art by peddling virtual fascinations.
For him, too, the convention of the social contract formed the basis of all legitimate political authority, though his conception of citizenship was much more organic and much less individualistic than Locke's.
