The 92-year-old cleric does not recognize Israel as a religiously legitimate state and holds its secular leaders in contempt.

Thanks to an unusual and probably fleeting set of events, Somalia has a chance to return to the community of law-abiding and legitimate states.

However, most political ideologies have their own justifications, and thus their own vision of what constitutes a legitimate state.

Instead, they constantly pushed the system towards a legitimate state, even without explicitly detecting error states.

He called his legitimate state a "night-watchman state."

First and foremost the secessionist enclave called "Somaliland" has never been a legitimate state in the eyes of the international community.

It prevented the building of a legitimate state and eliminated any step leading towards the supremacy of law.

As a result, many southerners do not consider Sudan to be a legitimate state.

One might argue that the Palestinians would have no beef with Israel if they had a legitimate state of their own.

If Alerion is indeed a legitimate state, then by the preamble to the Constitution it belongs to the family of nations.