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    Legitimate democratic authority presupposes a bounded dem... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Global democracy is required for global justice.

    Legitimate democratic authority presupposes a bounded demos with shared political identity, common institutions, and mutual accountability that does not exist at the global level.

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    • 1.Democratic legitimacy requires accountability mechanisms where citizens can meaningfully sanction leaders, which global institutions structurally prevent.
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    • 2.Shared political identity enables the solidarity and trust necessary for citizens to accept binding collective decisions that constrain self-interest.
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    • 3.Without bounded membership, global demos lacks capacity to sustain deliberation and forge consensus on fundamentally contested values and interests.
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    • 1.Legitimacy can derive from procedural fairness, expertise, and consent rather than requiring bounded identity—international treaties show this works.
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    • 2.Global interconnection creates de facto shared interests in climate, pandemics, and trade that impose collective decisions regardless of formal demos boundaries.
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    • 3.The bounded demos requirement often protects existing power inequalities by denying voice to non-members affected by decisions of exclusive groups.
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