Legitimacy the right and acceptance of an authorithy,usally a governing law or regime.Political legitimacy is considered a basic condition for governing,without which the government wiil suffer legislative deadlocks and collapse.In political systems where this is not the case,unpopular regimes survive because they considered legitimate by a small,influential elite.In chinese political philosophy,since the historical period of the Zhou Dynasty,the political legitimacy of a ruler and government was derived from the mandate of heaven,and unjust rulers who lost said mandate therefore lost the right to rule the people.
Max Weber had proposed that societies behave cyclically in governing themselves with different types of governmental legitimacy.That democracy was unnecessary for establishing legitimacy,a condition that can be established with codified laws,customs,and cultural principles,not by means of popular sufferage.He believed that a society might decide to revent from the legitimate government of a rational legal authority to the charismatic government of a leader ;e.g the Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler.
Therefore the elected government should abide by the democratic principles in governing,and thus is legally accountable to its people in order to improve our country.
title :Consent of the governed confers political legitimacy
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The ruling government should use those democratic principles to rule the country, but in South Africa we say we are in a democratic country whereas racism still rules black people are being called monkey's, until the democratic principles and rules are followed and used we can't say this is the democratic coountry.
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