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    It is not the case that Avoiding domination does not require democracy

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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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    • 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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