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    Equality of political power cannot be intrinsically fair ... — Carmelics
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    Equality of political power cannot be intrinsically fair or just in democratic systems.

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    • 1.Rousseau's general will requires unanimous substantive agreement, not mere procedural equality, for legitimate political authority.
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    • 2.Procedural equality of votes masks substantive inequalities in agenda-setting, framing, and institutional access that determine real political power.
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    • 3.A process grounded in formally equal inputs but structurally unequal outputs cannot derive intrinsic justice from its procedural form alone.
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    • 1.Plato's epistemic objection in the Republic establishes that equal weighting of unequal political competence produces systematically irrational collective decisions.
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    • 2.A decision procedure that is indifferent to the epistemic quality of inputs cannot be intrinsically just, since justice requires getting outcomes right, not merely equal participation.
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    • 1.The idea of equality is at the root of social justice.
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    • 2.Equality of political power requires a coherent and plausible interpretation of equality in the distribution of political power among members of society.
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    • 3.The relation of politicians to citizens inevitably gives rise to inequality.
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    Other arguments question the coherence of the idea of intrinsically fair collective decision making processes. For instance, social choice theory questions the idea that there can be a fair decision making function that transforms a set of individual preferences into a rational collective preference. The core objection is that no general rule satisfying reasonable constraints can be devised that can transform any set of individual preferences into a rational social preference. And this is taken
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