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    It is not the case that A nation's history and society, not abstract principles, determine the best apparatus of government.

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    • 1.Rawls demonstrates that principles of justice derived from the 'original position' apply across societies regardless of particular historical contingencies.
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    • 2.If historically-contingent institutions have systematically oppressed minorities, appealing to that history to justify governance structures merely entrenches injustice.
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    • 3.Universal human capacities for reason and autonomy ground normative political claims more reliably than traditions shaped by arbitrary conquest and exclusion.
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    • 1.Habermas shows that legitimate governance requires procedures satisfying discourse ethics, which are grounded in communicative rationality, not inherited social facts.
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    • 2.Burke's organic historicism cannot distinguish between institutions that have endured because they are functional and those that have endured because dominant groups suppressed alternatives.
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    • 1.Coleridgean 'Ideas' are located in organic historical institutions.
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    • 2.Those institutions embody their original purpose and meaning.
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    • 3.Abstract institutional blueprints fail to account for historically-formed preferences.
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