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    Democratic institutions are an essential component of relational equality.

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    • 1.Political decisions involve the use of coercive force.
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    • 2.The power to use force is the power that usually determines the distribution of other powers.
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    • 3.Inequalities in the power to use force undermine equal social status.
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    • 1.Relational equality requires that persons regard and treat each other as equals in social standing, not that they share equal political power.
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    • 2.Non-democratic societies with robust legal protections, civil rights, and social norms of mutual respect can instantiate relational equality without democratic institutions.
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    • 3.Elizabeth Anderson's relational egalitarianism focuses on eliminating oppressive social hierarchies, a goal achievable through constitutional courts or rights-based frameworks independent of majoritarian democracy.
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    • 1.Democratic majorities routinely subordinate minorities, producing systemic inequalities in social standing that undermine rather than constitute relational equality.
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    • 2.Epistocratic or deliberative procedural constraints on democratic power, as argued by Estlund and Christiano, may better protect the equal standing of marginalized groups than unconstrained democratic institutions.
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    Niko Kolodny argues that democratic institutions are an essential component of relational equality (Kolodny 2014a,b). One line of Kolodny’s argument holds that political decisions involve the use of coercive force. Inequalities in the power to use force undermine equal social status at least in part because the power to use force is “the power that usually determines the distribution of other powers” (Kolodny 2014b: 307). Individuals who have superior power to use force on others have a superior
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