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    A person may be governed by an institution even without e... — Carmelics
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    A person may be governed by an institution even without endorsing or consenting to it

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    • 1.A criminal justice system exists in a state
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    • 2.A person who lives in that state and is charged with a crime falls under its rules
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    • 3.The person is found guilty and sentenced by a duly established court
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    • 1.Legitimate political authority requires a justificatory relationship between the governed and the governing institution, not mere coercive power.
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    • 2.Wolff's anarchist argument holds that autonomous agents cannot surrender moral judgment to any authority without self-contradiction.
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    • 3.A court's de facto power to sentence does not establish de jure authority, as Locke distinguishes force from rightful governance in the Second Treatise.
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    • 1.Rawls argues in 'Legal Obligation and the Duty of Fair Play' that governance without consent binds only when institutions satisfy principles of justice.
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    • 2.If an institution is systematically unjust, Thoreau and King's civil disobedience tradition holds the moral obligation to comply is nullified or reversed.
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    A person may be governed by some institution even if he does not like it, or does not endorse it. Thus, for example, suppose a criminal justice system exists in a certain state. Suppose some miscreant lives in that state and has been charged with some crime. Suppose he is found guilty in a duly established court of law and is sentenced to ten years in prison. He is governed by the rules of the judicial system whether he likes it or not. To be governed by an institution one must live (or perhaps
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