Legitimacy
The word legitimacy comes from the Latin word legitimare it has two uses:
- Legitimacy (political science) is whether or not people accept the validity of a law or ruling or the validity of a governing regime.
- In the common law tradition, legitimacy (law) describes the status of children who are born to parents that are legally married.
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