Constitutions as Vehicles for Legitimacy

Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 311–313

Abstract

Because they touch upon our inner emotions constitutions can be important vectors for legitimacy (of the political and/or legal system they govern). Like constitutions, legitimacy is a belief we have in and attribute to a (political, legal, etc.) system. The chapter shows how legitimacy and the acceptance of authority work.

Authors 1

1. W.J.M. Voermans corresponding Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Universiteit Leiden