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    It is not the case that It is preferable to open our conception of democracy and think about alternate values and procedures suited to the global system rather than simply transplanting existing national models

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    • 1.Existing democratic models encode hard-won procedural safeguards against tyranny that took centuries of political failure to develop.
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    • 2.Designing novel democratic procedures 'suited to the global system' without these tested foundations risks repeating catastrophic historical errors.
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    • 3.The epistemic humility invoked against transplanting national models applies equally—and more forcefully—against untested institutional invention.
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    • 1.Dahl and Held both show that democratic legitimacy requires a bounded demos with shared identity, mutual obligation, and collective self-authorship.
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    • 2.No alternative values or procedures can substitute for a demos, making global democracy conceptually incoherent rather than merely institutionally underdeveloped.
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    • 1.Each existing model of democracy was developed within the national context
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    • 2.The global system is not a state
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    • 3.We cannot know in advance which national model of democracy is best suited to the global system
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