Legitimacy

Professor Schuler asked me a question in class and he asked, "Where does our legitimacy come from?" and the answer was the constitution. The definition of legitimacy is, "Lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with the law." Since the war in Iraq, I'm sure that our country has been suffering legitimacy problems. American power is being questioned by many people because of the war.

Despite our problems, we do have legitimacy; the European Union is another story. They seem to not really have legitimacy well, YET that is. In the EU guide, it reads that their Constitutional Treaty was agreed and signed but has failed to come into force. This is because it was not ratified by all of the countries within the EU.