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    Supports→Substantive democratic equality should have no independent weight against the fundamental aim of producing just laws and policies.

    Democratic procedures that systematically produce unjust outcomes—as in majoritarian oppression of minorities—thereby forfeit their normative authority on consequentialist grounds.

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    Consequentialist grounds(as used in ethics)
    Reasons based on the actual results or consequences of an action, rather than the action's intentions or rules.
    Democratic procedures(as used in political philosophy)
    The formal processes a democracy uses to make decisions, like voting, debate, and majority rule.
    Forfeit(as used in the statement)
    To lose or give up a right, privilege, or claim, usually because of a violation or failure.
    Majoritarian oppression(as used in political philosophy)
    A situation where the majority group uses its power to unfairly harm or suppress the rights of minority groups.
    consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)

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    The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
    normative authority(whether something has the right to guide how we understand things)
    The legitimate power or right to tell us what we should think, believe, or do.

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