The first principle is that political and social institutions (and changes in these institutions) are legitimate to the extent that they improve the welfare of all individuals who live under them.
The idea behind this approach is that laws and policies are legitimate to the extent that they are publicly justified to the citizens of the community.
It discusses the instrumentalist theory according to which authority is legitimate to the extent that it gets people to do what they already have a duty to do.
In other words, deliberative theorists hypothesise that the "outcomes are legitimate to the extent they receive reflective assent through participation in authentic deliberation by all those subject to the decision in question" (Dryzek 2001: 651).
It is foreseen that a participatory approach will make this work programme legitimate to the extent that consensus-based decisions for management can be adopted under the work packages identified, including in connection with the elaboration of multiannual management plans.
There is however another legitimate question: to what extent is arts funding regressive, in that the beneficiaries are better off than the general taxpayers?
To the extent that legitimate cases get dismissed as a result, Mr. Holder should make sure allegations of government wrongdoing get referred to an agency inspector general, as his new plan requires.
But I think there are lots of legitimate questions about its extent, how much humans are causing it, and certainly there is a very real and necessary debate about the mechanism for dealing with it".
Earlier, Kerry acknowledged that the leaders had legitimate questions about the extent of National Security Agency NSAA) phone and internet surveillance revealed in stories by the Guardian and other newspapers based on documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Mr. Levie of Box.net noted that his company and Dropbox, as well as the services from Google and Microsoft, were less likely prosecution targets because they depended to a large extent on legitimate corporate purchases of their storage.
In addition, and even more controversially, Rawls thinks that behind the veil of ignorance it would be agreed by the parties that social and economic inequalities would be accepted as legitimate only to the extent that those inequalities are to the advantage of all.
