The word "legitimation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act or process of providing or making something legitimate or valid. For example, "The act of legitimation has allowed the new company to operate in this country."
The demands on the legitimation of law change with this functional realignment: to be legitimate, modern law must secure the private autonomy of those subject to it.
The Qin simply went much further, assaulting every section of society in its remorseless attempt to establish a form of protototalitarian dictatorship.The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.
The commission its members chosen by elected national governments would propose legislation; it would then have to be approved by both the Council and the European Parliament, another mode of legitimation.
If reason were only to prevail, then "the past could provide not a prison but an exit, an explanation, rather than a historical legitimation".
Where necessary, sovereignty in selected economic policy fields can and should be pooled and democratic legitimation deepened.
At the time of Yamato's expedition against Koguryŏ in the late 4th century, Paekche and Yamato found themselves allied against Silla or Koguryŏ (or both); while the latter looked to northern Chinese kingdoms for support and legitimation, Yamato and Paekche usually turned to southern China.
Meticulous ethnic balancing of the cabinet and an open-door economic policy further attracted support from prospering traders (and smugglers into Ghana), and by 1972 Eyadéma felt secure enough to seek popular legitimation via a presidential plebiscite.
It formed a powerful legitimation of king and elite in their task of preserving order.
He hoped for a restoration of his people and was convinced that one of the conditions for such a restoration was to recognize the divine legitimation of the house of David.
A much-publicized decision in 1992 (the Mabo case) seemed to promise a radical legitimation of indigenous land-rights claims.
The growing range of speculation and empirical data generated by the burgeoning social sciences, philosophy, and history, have provided a rich ore from which those responsible for teacher preparation mined the materials they needed for the construction and legitimation of their pedagogic systems and principles.
