Concerns about legitimacy continue to be a significant source of contention within the nation’s largest inter-tribal organization. Tohono O’odham Nation hosts grand opening for newest gaming facility The Tohono O’odham Nation is getting ready to welcome visitors to its fifth gaming facility in Ar...
By insisting that government remain small and its purview limited, by creatively sorting and containing the voters, and by challenging the legitimacy of elections themselves, the dominant agents of the American Right have worked hard to constrain democratic freedom and to secure their advantages. Over...
Acceptance of legitimacy of the state and its monopoly on the use of force is predicated on its willingness to exercise restraint, to use force lawfully, and to hold anyone who is an officer of the state accountable. p. 97 Norms are the unwritten traditions, rules, customs, conventions, ...
however, were gun-shy about embroiling themselves. Instead, they confected a hermetically sealed-off Potemkin village in which they pretended they were aristocrats with all the entitlements and deference and legitimacy that comes with that station. ...
It would be in a way almost easier to agree with Humanicontrarian‘s polemical views about the legitimacy of humanitarian actors to intervene, but in my mind, it’s harder to try and improve from within something that is broken, imperfect, improvable and at times damaging. Like the UN, ...
The political energy behind this program remained nationalistic, but became increasingly focused on upward mobility, social striving, and maintaining the long-term legitimacy of the economic regime with the promise of opportunity for all.This trend continued into the last century. Consequently, from ...
be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state, to recognize Israel's legitimacy, and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past....
The latest enemy of an appreciation of literature is feminism, which tries to undermine the legitimacy of virtually the entire western canon. p. 65-66 The loss of literature has also meant the loss of heroes. In a “perversion of the democratic principle,” this lack is almost admired, sinc...
“Nation building,” from the early internal improvements to Eisenhower’s highway system, requires what Alexander Hamilton described as “energy in the executive”: strong national leadership, popular legitimacy, and the ability to carry a policy through to successful execution. The federal checkbook...
Da Vinci assures their Anti-Alien God trump, the Holy Sword artillery which uses the legitimacy of the Human Order itself as its bullet——Hume-Barrel Rayproof——is ready. While Goredolf would like to be the one to fire it, Jingle Abel Meuniere informs him Marine has already been chosen...