To some, this makes the president's power more legitimate than that of a leader appointed indirectly.

And then, legitimate spiritual power so often appeared to fail.

And the warlords will need some form of legitimate power.

There is where the contemporary social treatment of legitimate power rests.

Theory, then, by making power legitimate, turns it into authority.

Outsiders who want to play on that stage but have no legitimate power see terrorism as a way to do it.

Yet, we have also granted authority to a justice department that has the legitimate power to alter life quality of those in prison.

It is the legitimate power which one person or a group holds over another.

There are many areas of that country where even the authorities cannot exercise legitimate democratic power.

However, in a liberal society a democratic system of government is not considered sufficient by itself to legitimate public power.