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    It is not the case that Consent to political society presupposes only that some legitimate decision procedure exist, not any particular one such as majority rule.

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    • 1.Without majority rule or equivalent protection, minorities have no procedural guarantee against tyranny by smaller dominant groups or individuals.
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    • 2.The claim provides no criteria for distinguishing a 'legitimate' procedure from an arbitrary one, making legitimacy unfalsifiable and empty.
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    • 3.If citizens consent to a procedure that systematically excludes them from power, that consent itself becomes questionable or coerced, not genuine.
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    • 1.Legitimacy requires only that decisions bind people through a procedure they recognize as fair, not that it be specifically majoritarian.
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    • 2.Diverse legitimate systems exist historically: consensus-based, representative, sortition, and expertise-based—proving no single procedure is necessary.
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    • 3.Requiring majority rule as the sole legitimate procedure is itself an unprovable claim that needs independent justification, not inherent to consent.
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