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    Kant explicitly rejected world government as prone to des... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The serious form of the impossibility objection is that it is impossible to form a good state or federation of global magnitude

    Kant explicitly rejected world government as prone to despotism, showing 'good' global order need not mean unified political magnitude.

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    • 1.Concentrated power in a single world government removes competitive accountability between political units.
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    • 2.Pluralistic systems with multiple sovereign states allow citizens to exit or choose between jurisdictions.
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    • 3.Kant's perpetual peace relies on republican federalism, not centralized authority, for stability.
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    • 1.Kant ultimately endorsed a federation of states, which requires coordinating institutions approaching world government.
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    • 2.Decentralized systems enable powerful states to dominate weak ones without legal constraints, increasing despotism.
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    • 3.Kant's concern was despotism's inevitability, not its uniqueness to unified structures—fragmentation enables imperialism.
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