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    It is not the case that Democratic collective self-rule can ground legitimate political authority.

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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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    • 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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