It was unveiled without warning when there were only 10 days left in the legislative session — hardly enough time for legitimate consideration of such a controversial piece of legislation. (gothamgazette.com)
Social practices are based on the dominant framing, and thus authorize certain actors and actions as legitimate, and define other approaches as standing outside of legitimate consideration. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
But none of these legitimate considerations excuse the plain old boorish behaviors or worse that we're reading about today. (inc.com)