Concept
Political legitimacy
Overview
right and acceptance of an authority
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If then there are opponents when the social compact is made, their opposition does not invalidate the contract, but merely prevents them from being included in it. They are foreigners among citizens. When the State is instituted, residence constitutes consent; to dwell within its territory is to submit to the Sovereign.[1] Apart from this primitive contract, the vote of the majority always binds all the rest. This…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
Close in meaning to Political legitimacy; the term itself is not named.
Such convictions, when they exist in a people, or in any appreciable portion of one, are entitled to influence in virtue of their mere existence, and not solely in that of the probability of their being grounded in truth. A people can not be well governed in opposition to their primary notions of right, even though these may be in some points erroneous. A correct estimate of the relation which should subsist between…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
Close in meaning to Political legitimacy; the term itself is not named.
Political power, which is developed similarly, but earlier than philosophy, from religion, exhibits the onesidedness, which in the actual world may infect its _implicitly_ true Idea, as demoralisation. Plato, in common with all his thinking contemporaries, perceived this demoralisation of democracy and the defectiveness even of its principle; he set in relief accordingly the underlying principle of the state, but…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
Close in meaning to Political legitimacy; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Political legitimacy
Related ideas
- Consent of the governed
- Norm (philosophy)
- Isaiah Berlin
- John Locke
- Authority
- Philosophy of history
- Monarch
- Monarchy
- Max Weber
- Aesthetics
- Mandate of Heaven
- Philosophy of religion
- Political philosophy
- Eclecticism
- Political science
- Skepticism
- Charisma
- Tradition
- Age of Enlightenment
- Constitutionalism
- Theocracy
- Zhou dynasty
- Social justice
- Horus
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.