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    A normative theory of adjudication derived from constitutional political economy must be structural, describing the structure of adjudication rather than dictating judicial motivation directly.

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    • 1.Constitutional political economy assumes political actors, including judges, will always act in a self-interested fashion within existing political institutions.
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    • 2.A normative theory cannot dictate directly judicial motivation if judges will always act self-interestedly regardless of such directives.
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    • 3.Adjudicative institutions can be designed to align the interests of judges with the interests of the constitution's designer.
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    • 1.Lon Fuller's internal morality of law demonstrates that adjudication has inherent procedural obligations that constrain judges independently of institutional design.
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    • 2.If judges are bound by role-specific duties arising from law's internal logic, a normative theory can address judicial motivation directly rather than only structurally.
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    • 3.A purely structural theory that ignores intrinsic judicial obligations mischaracterizes adjudication as mere incentive-response behavior rather than a rule-governed practice.
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    • 1.Ronald Dworkin's account of adjudication holds that judges are morally obligated to interpret law as integrity, a motivational standard irreducible to institutional alignment.
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    • 2.The constitutional political economy assumption that judges invariably act self-interestedly is falsified by empirical judicial behavior studies showing deference to principle over interest.
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    • 3.If the self-interest premise is empirically contestable, the argument that motivation cannot be directly addressed collapses, leaving structural design as merely one normative option among several.
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    Key Terms

    Adjudication(as the process where Finnis believes moral reasoning matters)
    The process of a judge or court hearing a case and making a legal decision about it.
    Judicial motivation(as used in philosophy of law)
    The personal reasons, beliefs, or desires that influence how a judge makes decisions in court.
    Normative theory(as used in philosophy and political science)
    A set of ideas about how things SHOULD be or what people OUGHT to do, rather than just describing how things actually are.
    Structural (in this context)(as used in philosophy of law)
    Focused on the basic framework, organization, or rules of a system rather than on individual people's thoughts or motivations.
    constitutional political economy(Distinguished from the policy analysis strand of economic analysis of law)
    A strand of political economy with normative aims that assumes political actors act self-interestedly within existing institutions but that agents act more impartially when designing the political institutions within which they will work.

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    The second strand of political economy, constitutional political economy, does have normative aims. It assumes that political actors will act in a self-interested fashion within existing political institutions but that agents will act more impartially in the design of the political institutions within which they will work.[24] A normative theory of adjudication does emerge from this strand of political economy, but it differs significantly from the normative theory endorsed by the policy analy
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