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    In democracy, the use of power is always an abuse of power. — Carmelics
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    In democracy, the use of power is always an abuse of power.

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    • 1.Any exercise of power requires communication and the giving of reasons to others.
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    • 2.Giving reasons to others divides and shares authority.
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    • 3.Sovereign power, by definition, must be exercised without division or sharing.
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    • 1.Rousseau's general will demonstrates that sovereign power can be constituted through collective self-legislation, not external imposition.
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    • 2.When citizens author the laws they obey, power and authority are unified rather than divided, dissolving the premise that communication fragments sovereignty.
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    • 3.Democratic self-rule thus represents a form of power exercise where the governed and governing are identical, precluding structural 'abuse' by definition.
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    • 1.Habermas's discourse ethics establishes that communicative rationality generates legitimate authority rather than merely dispersing it.
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    • 2.If democratic reason-giving produces binding norms through ideal speech conditions, then exercising such power fulfills rather than violates its own normative foundation.
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    Now, finally, let us go to one of the most recent of Derrida’s writings, to his 2002 “The Reason of the Strongest,” the first essay in the book called Rogues. There Derrida is discussing the United Nations, which he says combines the two principles of Western political thought: sovereignty and democracy. But, “democracy and sovereignty are at the same time, but also by turns, inseparable and in contradiction with one another” (Rogues, p. 100). Democracy and sovereignty contradict one another in
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