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    Avoiding domination does not require democracy — Carmelics
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    Avoiding domination does not require democracy

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    • 1.Non-domination requires that power be constrained by law, not that law originate from those it governs—Hayek's rule of law satisfies this.
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    • 2.A constitutional monarchy with robust judicial review and entrenched rights can structurally preclude arbitrary interference without democratic input.
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    • 3.Pettit's own republican framework identifies non-arbitrariness, not popular authorship, as the constitutive feature of non-dominated status.
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    • 1.Montesquieu's separation of powers demonstrates that structural checks among elite institutions can block domination independently of mass suffrage.
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    • 2.Historical republics like Venice sustained non-domination for centuries through oligarchic balancing mechanisms rather than broad democratic participation.
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    • 1.Subjecting the powerful to reliably enforced and widely known rules is sufficient to reduce domination
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    • 2.Subordinate groups are less dominated whenever their overlords must abide by reliably enforced and widely known rules, even when those rules do not express the will of the subordinated
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    Frank Lovett argues that avoiding domination does not require democracy, but instead subjecting the powerful to reliably enforced and widely known rules. Perhaps democracy does, in fact, most effectively reduce domination, but this should follow from substantive argument, not from the mere analysis of concepts (Lovett 2010). Also, there is reason to think that subordinate groups are less dominated whenever their overlords must abide by reliably enforced and widely known rules, even when those ru
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