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    Kant's defense of the loose league is more consistent whe... — Carmelics
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    Kant's defense of the loose league is more consistent when interpreted as an advocacy for the loose league as a first step toward a stronger federation with coercive powers.

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    • 1.Kleingeld (2004, 2012) argues that Kant can be read as advocating the loose league as a first step on the road toward a federation with coercive powers.
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    • 2.Joining a stronger federation must be a voluntary decision by the peoples involved in order to honor their political autonomy.
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    • 3.Because joining the stronger federation must be voluntary, the strong federation is not a matter of coercive international right.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly distinguishes the voluntary league (Völkerbund) from a coercive state of nations (Völkerstaat) as categorically different political forms, not developmental stages.
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    • 2.In Perpetual Peace, Kant rejects a world republic with coercive powers as a threat to republican freedom, not as a distant goal requiring intermediate steps.
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    • 3.Treating the loose league as merely instrumental subordinates its intrinsic legitimacy to a teleological endpoint Kant himself warned against.
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    • 1.Hobbes's analysis of sovereign authority demonstrates that voluntary associations lack enforcement mechanisms and therefore cannot reliably constrain state behavior over time.
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    • 2.A loose league that cannot compel compliance will systematically fail to prevent defection by powerful states, making it an ineffective first step rather than a stable foundation.
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    • 3.If the loose league is structurally incapable of generating compliance, reinterpreting it as a transitional stage cannot rescue its coherence without abandoning Kant's own antipathy toward coercive world government.
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    Especially the first objection has been repeated ever since, but more recent interpretations have questioned its legitimacy (Kleingeld 2004, 2012), arguing that Kant can also be read as advocating the loose league as a first step on the road toward a federation with coercive powers. Because joining this stronger form of federation should be a voluntary decision on the part of the peoples involved, to honor their political autonomy, the strong federation is not a matter of coercive international
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