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    It is not the case that A sovereign who lacks effective power to enforce religious matters has forfeited the normative basis for claiming exclusive jurisdiction over them.

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    • 1.Normative authority and enforcement power are logically distinct; a law remains valid even when widely disobeyed or unenforceable.
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    • 2.Jurisdictional claims rest on institutional role and constitutional authority, not empirical enforcement capacity in all domains.
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    • 3.Voluntary compliance through legitimacy differs from enforcement; sovereignty can persist through consent despite weak coercive power.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Normative authority requires ability to enforce rules; without enforcement capacity, claims to jurisdiction become merely performative.
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    • 2.Religious pluralism makes enforcement impossible for most sovereigns; thus claiming exclusive jurisdiction becomes empirically false.
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    • 3.Authority grounded in effectiveness rather than bare assertion creates legitimacy through demonstrated capacity to govern fairly.
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