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    It is not the case that Democratic institutions are an essential component of relational equality.

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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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    • 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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