Use "legitimating" in a sentence

1. This is the outstanding recent work treating Constitutional Law in terms of the legitimating effects of argumentation

2. Marxism and liberation theology condemn religion for supporting the status quo and legitimating the power of the oppressor.

3. ‘The body is the sign not of sublime animation Betokening inspiration, and thus of legitimating truth and divine authenticity, but a means of emptying truth from the image.’ ‘These geometric forms, however, could betoken the patron rather than the designer, especially for an audience less familiar with the arts and their leading