Legitimation or legitimisation is the act of providing legitimacy. He viewed it as a current legitimation strategy of world hegemony. The idea of Christian manliness also worked as a metaphysical legitimation for the imperialist state. Biology also served as an ideological weapon for the legitimation of racially biased immigration laws. Raleigh defended the refusal of the barons to change the law of bastardy and legitimation. Myth legitimation has implications for human rights and social justice. Symbolic universes are created to provide legitimation to the created institutional structure. They opposed popular legitimation or mass participation in governance of the state. Prior to legitimation, the child is said to be illegitimate. Legitimation crises and state collapse soon followed. Maroons, as well as other Africans, rapidly learned that Catholicism was necessary for political legitimation. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Letter s criticize the Jesuits' legitimation of homicide. Legitimation of the European Union rests on the Treaty System. He shows how fundamental universal thoughts are adapted to local requirements of legitimation. This probably served as a legitimation for the Dorian migrations into the Peloponnese.