5 sentences with “legitimacy”

The Austrian Habsburgs rejected the legitimacy of the claim, and soon recruited the British to help defeat France.

In order to ensure that Columbus' findings remained Spanish, the Spanish monarchs turned to the Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI, who issued two papal decrees in 1493 that gave legitimacy to Spanish claims to the Atlantic at Portugal's expense.

Although the Seleucid dynasty attempted to model itself on both Greek traditions of rule and the earlier Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids (Darius III was the last of that dynasty to rule), it never established legitimacy in the eyes of many of its subjects.

The adoption of the Bill of Rights softened Anti-Federalist opposition to the Constitution and gave the new federal government greater legitimacy among those who were otherwise wary of the new centralized power created by the property men during the secretive Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Almost all philosophers claimed that the legitimacy of a monarch was based on his rule coinciding with the prosperity of the nation and the absence of cruelty and injustice in the laws of the land. The implication was that the people have the right to judge the monarch in terms of his competence and rationality.