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1934–2011 United States
John Anthony Rohr (July 31, 1934 – August 10, 2011) was an American political scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S.
United States Academics Political scientists Also known as: John A. Rohr
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The creationist account is as factual, historical and perspicuous and is thus fundamental in the understanding of every fact and phenomenon in the created universe.
In France constitutions come and go, but administrative institutions remain.
Administrators should use their discretionary power in order to maintain the constitutional balance of powers in support of instilling individual rights.
Legitimacy means more than a grudging acceptance of the inevitable.3 The word suggests at least confidence and respect and, at times, even warmth and affection.
A "value" in the life of a person as well as a nation suggests a pattern of attitudes or behavior that recurs with some frequency. An attitude or a passion or a principle must have a history—either personal or societal before it becomes a "value."
John Rohr (1976)
[The administrative state is legitimate because it] is consistent with the Constitution, fulfills its design, and heals a longstanding major defect.
Alexander Hamilton spoke the language of legitimacy when, as Publius, he noted in Federalist 27 the connection between sound Public Administration and widespread popular support
The book's focus is on the troubling questions of legitimacy that survive the resolution of a legal controversy. With constitutional issues, there are many such survivors, because the Constitution is more than a legal document; it is covenant as well as a contract.