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    It is not the case that Global democracy is required for global justice.

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    • 1.Global justice can be achieved through non-democratic mechanisms such as international legal institutions, expert bodies, and treaty regimes that enforce rights-based constraints.
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    • 2.Rawls's Law of Peoples demonstrates that a Society of Peoples upholding basic human rights need not be democratically organized to satisfy the demands of international justice.
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    • 3.Democratic legitimacy is a procedural value distinct from substantive justice, and conflating them commits a category error about what justice fundamentally requires.
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    • 1.Legitimate democratic authority presupposes a bounded demos with shared political identity, common institutions, and mutual accountability that does not exist at the global level.
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    • 2.Without a global demos, global democratic institutions would lack the legitimacy conditions that make democratic decisions authoritative rather than merely aggregative.
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    • 3.If global democratic institutions lack genuine legitimacy, their outputs cannot serve as the authoritative resolution of disagreements that global justice purportedly requires.
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    • 1.Global justice requires sorting out reasonable disagreements about how resources should be allocated.
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    • 2.Democratic mechanisms are needed to sort out such reasonable disagreements.
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