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“Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.”

People Self Government Accepting Determination Expected Self Determination Legitimacy Taiwan Affront

Author:Todd Akin

“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .”

Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.”

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?”

Government Church Religious Silence Roles Friendly Fulfilling Legitimacy Oppressive Governments

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.”

Government Defense Theology Legitimacy

Author:Taslima Nasrin