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    It is not the case that No state possesses legitimate political authority over the individual.

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    • 1.Legitimate authority can arise from fair procedures of consent, not merely from the content of commands (Rawls, Locke).
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    • 2.A state grounded in hypothetical or actual rational consent is not equivalent to despotism, which rests on coercion alone.
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    • 3.Equating all political authority with despotism commits a category error that dissolves a meaningful moral distinction.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Self-rule without external coordination produces collective action failures that undermine each individual's actual capacity for self-determination (Hobbes, Rousseau).
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    • 2.An authority that expands the effective freedom of individuals by securing stable conditions for agency can be legitimate on consequentialist-autonomy grounds.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Every state is a form of despotism, whether ruled by one or many.
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    • 2.Despotic authority is incompatible with the egoistic individual's self-rule.
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    • 3.Self-rule takes precedence over any political obligation regardless of the state's form or the foundation of its claimed authority.
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