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    Supports→Mill's claim that multinational states are incompatible with democracy is mistaken

    Mill's argument assumes a single demos is necessary for democratic accountability, but federal and consociational arrangements demonstrate demoicracy—democracy among multiple peoples—is coherent.

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    Consociational arrangements(as a form of government organization)
    A political system where different groups (often ethnic, religious, or national groups) share power and make decisions together through negotiation and agreement rather than majority rule alone.
    Democratic accountability(as one requirement for legitimacy)
    The requirement that people in power must answer to the public for their decisions and can be held responsible or even removed if they act wrongly.
    Demoicracy(in political philosophy)
    A newer political theory term meaning democracy that works among multiple separate peoples or nations rather than requiring everyone to be part of one single unified demos.
    Demos(in political philosophy)
    A Greek word meaning 'the people'—in political theory, it refers to a single unified group of citizens who all belong to one democratic community and share the same government.

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    Federal arrangements(as a form of government organization)
    A system where power is shared between a central government and smaller regional governments (like states or provinces), each with their own authority over certain matters.
    Mill(as the subject being discussed)
    John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential ideas about liberty, happiness, and what makes a good life.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them

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