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    It is not the case that Egalitarian rights of global scope are not ruled out by the justification for coercive states.

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    • 1.The justification for coercive states is grounded in reciprocal obligations among co-citizens who share burdens of legal compliance (Rawls, Law of Peoples).
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    • 2.Egalitarian distributive rights presuppose a scheme of social cooperation whose binding obligations do not extend to the global level.
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    • 3.Therefore, the domestic scope of coercive state justification restricts egalitarian rights to co-citizens, not all persons globally.
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    • 1.States are justified by their capacity to enforce determinate rights-assignments that require territorial monopoly on legitimate force (Wellman, coercive state theory).
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    • 2.A global egalitarian rights framework lacks any analogous enforcement mechanism and thus cannot derive legitimacy from the same justificatory structure.
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    • 1.The justification for coercive states appeals to protection of important rights for both insiders and outsiders.
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    • 2.Nothing in the justification of coercive states restricts protected rights to a non-egalitarian or purely domestic scope.
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