"the legitimation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act or process of making something legitimate or giving it legitimacy. An example of using "the legitimation" in a sentence could be: "The new government's main task was to gain the trust of its citizens and ensure the legitimation of its policies and actions."
That leaves something like the legitimation of the Kosovo intervention, pithily described as "illegal but legitimate".
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.
By the time of Max Joseph's death, he had legitimated seven of the males of his various alliances, and was considering the legitimation of two more.
But none of those solutions could last, simply postponing – but not resolving – the legitimation crisis.
The history of "private", Williams concluded tartly, "is a record of the legitimation of a bourgeois view of life".
More organizations will be created, and fewer organizations will fail, when the legitimation of the form is high and competition is weak.
"They tell us that there is an overlap in the content between the legitimations that rapists use to legitimate their violence against women and the kinds of things that are said about women in lads' mags," Hegarty said in a video press release on the University of Surrey's website.
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.
His dissenting opinion in favour of "greenbacks" as war-emergency legal tender (Hepburn v. Griswold, 1870) became the majority's stand when the court reversed itself the next year and led to the permanent legitimation of paper money in the United States.
This is the only way to bridge the unavoidable time gap between the immediate economic measures that are due to be put in place, but which can still be revoked in the meantime, and the retrospective legitimation that may be required.
Many political analysts in the country believe that Papandreou has lost the public legitimation to continue governing since his political decision opposes the commitments he had undertaken before getting the power.
