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    Supports→Substantive democratic equality should have no independent weight against the fundamental aim of producing just laws and policies.

    If even the most influential liberal egalitarian framework treats procedures as derivative of substantive justice, democratic equality cannot claim lexical priority over just outcomes.

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    Key Terms

    Derivative of(in describing relationships between different orders)
    Dependent on or coming from something else; not independent.
    Lexical priority(explaining that healthcare matters more than other social goods)
    A ranking system where one thing is so important that it must be satisfied completely before you even consider other things—like alphabetizing by first letter before second letter.
    democratic equality(Used both as a standalone ideal and as a floor constraint within hybrid views.)
    A form of relational equality holding that all members of society are entitled to a baseline equal status as citizens, with some version of this entitlement being unconditional.
    liberal egalitarian framework(as used in political philosophy)
    A political and ethical theory that believes in both individual freedoms (liberal) and treating everyone as equals (egalitarian), typically associated with modern Western democratic thinking.

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    procedures(methods used to determine what justice should look like)
    Step-by-step methods or processes designed to reach a particular outcome.
    substantive justice(Presented as a potentially competing value against substantive democratic equality.)
    The quality of political decisions, laws, and public policies being genuinely just in content and outcome, as distinct from procedurally fair.

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