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    It is not the case that A large council of citizens should deliberate with and hold the monarch accountable as a central constitutional check.

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    • 1.Large deliberative councils are structurally prone to factional manipulation, as Madison argued in Federalist No. 10 regarding majority faction tyranny.
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    • 2.A council that reflects popular passions rather than reason may constrain the monarch toward worse, not better, policy outcomes.
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    • 1.Hobbes demonstrated that divided sovereignty—where council and monarch share authority—creates jurisdictional conflict that dissolves political order entirely.
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    • 2.Constitutional accountability mechanisms presuppose a higher arbiter to resolve disputes between council and monarch, generating infinite regress of authority.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A single ruler vesting all authority in himself tends toward neglect of the general welfare.
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    • 2.A council composed of citizens introduces distributed deliberation that counterbalances monarchic self-interest.
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