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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Non-democratic institutions lack legitimacy to impose binding obligations; justice without consent from affected populations is merely coercion.
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    • 2.Expert bodies and treaty regimes reflect the interests of powerful nations that designed them, reproducing global inequality under neutral language.
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    • 3.Accountability mechanisms in non-democratic institutions are weak; affected people cannot meaningfully challenge unjust decisions they didn't authorize.
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    • 1.Rights-based constraints enforced by legal institutions protect vulnerable populations better than majoritarian processes that may ignore minorities.
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    • 2.Technical expertise in international bodies (human rights courts, environmental agencies) produces more informed justice decisions than democratic deliberation.
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    • 3.Non-democratic mechanisms bypass nationalist biases and capture that prevent democratic states from cooperating on genuinely global problems.
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