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    It is not the case that Michael Walzer's sphere sovereignty holds that coercive state power draws its legitimacy from membership, which carries reciprocal obligations tailored to members' shared understandings.

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    • 1.Shared understandings within states are often products of coercive power, not genuine consensus, making them poor legitimacy sources.
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    • 2.Sphere sovereignty cannot adequately protect minorities whose understandings diverge from dominant community interpretations of justice.
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    • 3.Membership itself is coercively determined by birth; reciprocal obligations cannot be genuinely voluntary when exit is legally or practically impossible.
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    • 1.Political legitimacy requires consent grounded in shared cultural understanding, not abstract universal principles detached from community.
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    • 2.Reciprocal obligations tied to membership create stable social contracts where members see rules as reflecting their own values.
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    • 3.Different communities have justifiably different understandings of justice; sphere sovereignty respects this pluralism without relativism.
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