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    A democracy ought to protect the democratic process for m... — Carmelics
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    A democracy ought to protect the democratic process for moral reasons that must be grounded in the principles underpinning democracy itself.

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    • 1.There exists an internal limit on democracy that arises from the principles underpinning democracy.
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    • 2.The first kind of internal limit (protecting the democratic process) is morally important only if we can explain why a democracy ought to protect the democratic process.
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    • 3.The principles underpinning democracy provide the moral grounding needed to explain why protecting the democratic process matters.
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    • 1.Democratic legitimacy derives from procedural fairness alone, not from substantive moral principles underlying the procedure (Christiano, 2008).
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    • 2.If legitimacy is purely procedural, the protection of democracy requires no further moral grounding beyond the procedure's own continuity conditions.
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    • 3.A self-referential justification—where democracy protects itself by appealing to its own principles—collapses into circularity without external normative support.
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    • 1.Rousseau and Schmitt each argued that constituent power precedes and supersedes any constituted democratic order.
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    • 2.If pre-political sovereign will is the ultimate source of political authority, then democratic principles cannot themselves ground the obligation to protect democratic processes.
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    • 3.Protecting democracy may therefore require extra-democratic justifications—such as natural rights or existential self-preservation—that stand independent of democratic principles themselves.
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    Another kind of internal limit is a limit that arises from the principles that underpin democracy. And the presence of this limit would seem to be necessary to making sense of the first limit because in order for the first limit to be morally important we need to know why a democracy ought to protect the democratic process.
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