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    Formal procedural equality is compatible with systematic ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Obeying the outcomes of egalitarian democratic procedures is sufficient for citizens to achieve coordination on common rules without subjection.

    Formal procedural equality is compatible with systematic substantive domination of minorities by persistent majorities.

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    • 1.Formal equality (equal voting rights, due process) can coexist with substantive inequality if majorities repeatedly use lawful procedures to advance their interests.
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    • 2.Procedural fairness addresses process legitimacy, not outcome distribution. Fair procedures don't guarantee fair distributions across groups.
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    • 3.Democratic majorities have constitutional authority to make policy choices that disproportionately benefit their members without violating formal equality.
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    • 1.Systematic domination undermines the substantive conditions (economic security, political voice, dignity) necessary for formal equality to be genuinely meaningful.
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    • 2.Persistent majoritarian domination suggests formal procedures are structurally incapable of protecting minority interests, revealing a deeper procedural failure.
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    • 3.True procedural legitimacy requires safeguards against domination (separation of powers, constitutional limits), not merely equal formal access to majoritarian decision-making.
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