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    Democratic collective self-rule can ground legitimate pol... — Carmelics
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    Democratic collective self-rule can ground legitimate political authority.

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    • 1.Legitimate authority requires that those subject to it have consented to its decision procedures.
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    • 2.Majority rule — the core mechanism of democratic collective self-rule — is the decision procedure persons necessarily consent to when joining a political society.
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    • 3.Therefore, democratic authority rests on the consent of those subject to it.
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    • 1.Legitimate authority requires that its directives track morally correct reasons, not merely reflect the will of a majority.
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    • 2.Democratic majorities systematically produce outcomes that violate minority rights, as Tocqueville's tyranny of the majority demonstrates.
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    • 3.A procedure that regularly generates rights-violating outcomes cannot ground genuine political legitimacy, regardless of its consensual basis.
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    • 1.Consent to membership in a political society does not entail consent to every decision procedure that society employs, including majority rule.
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    • 2.Locke himself acknowledged that tacit consent to residence is too thin a basis to generate robust political obligations binding dissenters to majoritarian outcomes.
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    Some theorists argue that there is a special relation between democracy and legitimate authority grounded in the value of collective self-rule. John Locke argues that when a person consents to the creation of a political society, they necessarily consent to the use of majority rule in deciding how the political society is to be organized (Locke 1690: sec. 96). Locke thinks that majority rule is the natural decision rule when there is disagreement. He argues that a society is a kind of collective
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