For such a consensus counts as legitimate only when achieved under conditions of free and authentic affirmation of shared principles.
Beyond state authority, therefore, the challenge is not only achieving consensus, but determining legitimate enfranchisement.
"Jamming this in the Senate," Mr. Daschle added, is "not the way to achieve some bipartisan consensus on this very legitimate issue".
To the Editor: Witold Rybczynski raises a legitimate concern that seeking compromise and consensus on Frank Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial could "ultimately weaken the memorial design".
Yet many legitimate scientists, including some who signed the consensus statement, are striving to develop biotechnologies that will slow or arrest aging and restore and rejuvenate damaged and aging body components.
Second, the ancient tradition recognised a broader notion of the "legitimate causes of war" than the current consensus, which focuses on self-defence.In addition to self-defence, the ancient tradition accepted as legitimate causes both the "restoration of a violated right" and the "avenging of evil".
Getting closure and enforcing consensus may in some cases be a legitimate target, but it is questionable whether this should be the central goal for institutionalised ethics.
David now serves as director of World Beyond War, a broad effort to create a consensus that war no longer has any legitimate place in human society.
On the controversial topic of whether BMI and smoking status represent legitimate grounds for subsidy restrictions, not one forum reached consensus.
This result suggests that consensus scoring could be used as a legitimate scoring strategy for future challenges where a gold standard is absent.
Islamists and secular-minded Egyptians regard one another as obstacles to power, not as legitimate players in a complex game that requires inclusion and consensus.
