When you make something legal and original, by right to a son or daughter when declaring it legitimate, in documentation it speaks of legitimizing when you declare the authenticity of the same or the content as the signature. Give authority to a person over a position as chosen for that. Legitimizing your action is recognizing that another has value by recognizing it, giving importance to their ideas and emotions such as active participation by giving importance to their actions and efforts.
It is a norm that has validity when it is issued by a competent body, it is to legitimize a people or person respecting their rights as citizens belonging to the same nucleus, a government can legitimize, prove or justify the veracity of something or the quality of someone, according to to the law and may also grant or acquire a specific political power for himself. The power that the people give when electing their rulers through electoral votes, yielding decision-making, but without the people accepting it as legitimate, no political power by any law will be able to seize or incur in the decision-making and changes governed by the law.
There are 3 ways to legitimize a power, the sacred legitimizing that is based on religion and divinity, in this way it is established that the chosen power is a superior entity and that it is linked to the gods with their blessing. The legitimizing he was tribal empowers a leader but not having an extension of absolute power, which is shared with others especially with those of greater hierarchy or seniority forming a council; The council can elect that representative in addition to having the blessing of the clergy, such as when by line of inheritance they reach a higher position, depending on how each country takes it, as in Spain that with its Queens and Kings have been ascending the throne for decades past. To legitimize sovereign, here the power is owned by the people and only they have the ability to delegate to those who agree with them with the appropriate conditions and for a convenient time, as stipulated by each country in its constitution.
