legitimator

acting on behalf of the electorate as its legitimator of power, while

The first mode, inspiration and legitimation, takes place when international treaties, or domestic laws of third countries serve as an inspiration or legitimator for the reformulation of domestic laws and institutional practices.

Yet Sadr's egocentric antics -- constantly portraying himself as the legitimator of governments and claiming in March to be subject to death threats for pushing reform -- has isolated him among the political class.

(46) To survive in Cambodia, the ICC has thus been condemned to serve as an official legitimator for the power in place and its shadowy state practices.

Traian Ungureanu (MEP), as an expert authority, positioned himself both as a legitimator and as a delegitimator of this issue.

Csicsery-Ronay says, "Recovering the cyborg from [its] role as ideological legitimator (for conservative humanists and naive technophiles both), Haraway attempts to clear a new path for utopian rationality through the sprawl of instrumental rationalization" (404).

In a suffragette context, then, the monument itself, and the illustrations of it, are salient examples of the power of 'invented traditions,' as 'all invented traditions, so far as possible, use history as a legitimator of action and cement of group cohesion.' (Hobsbawn 12) As a means by which the demands of the militants were conveyed, artwork such as these reflect and reiterate the ritualistic potency of the marches, communicating in illustrative format, what Taylor and Whittier refer to as 'the redefinition of feeling and expression rules that apply to women.' (178)

Even the alleged impact of Haushofer's efforts as legitimator and apologist must be carefully scrutinized, however.