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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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