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    Institutionalizing the ascriptivist principle that every ... — Carmelics
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    Institutionalizing the ascriptivist principle that every nation is entitled to its own state would exacerbate ethno-national violence and associated human rights violations.

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    • 1.Formal legal entrenchment of a right transforms moral claims into justiciable entitlements, creating institutional incentives that reshape political behavior.
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    • 2.When secession becomes a codified right tied to ethnic identity, minority groups within prospective states face heightened vulnerability as populations are reclassified as obstacles to national self-determination.
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    • 3.Allen Buchanan's work demonstrates that ascriptivist frameworks generate recursive minority problems: every new state contains minorities who can invoke the same principle, producing cascading fragmentation and violence.
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    • 1.The SFRY's constitutional recognition of national self-determination rights in 1974 provides a historical case where institutionalized ascriptivism directly preceded the most severe European ethnic violence since 1945.
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    • 2.Institutionalizing group-based rights creates what David Laitin calls 'ethnic outbidding' dynamics, where political entrepreneurs are structurally rewarded for escalating exclusivist nationalist demands over moderate civic alternatives.
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    • 1.The historical record shows significant ethno-nationalist conflict.
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    • 2.Ethno-national violence inevitably entails human rights violations.
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    However, those who advocate for the ascriptivist view reply that it does not require every nation (or distinct people) to exercise its unilateral right to secede and have conjectured that were their theory generally accepted not every group upon which it confers this entitlement would choose to secede. Nevertheless, given the historical record of ethno-nationalist conflict, the worry remains that institutionalizing the principle that every nation is entitled to its own state would exacerbate eth
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