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    Supports→Individuals do not have the power and right to determine how to apply general moral principles in specific political circumstances.

    Only a few qualified individuals possess sufficient experience and expertise to determine the best form of a constitution and the laws of a country.

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    Recognizing the role of judgment in politics means for Rehberg that another fundamental tenet of revolutionary ideology collapses: the principle of the autonomy of reason, i.e., the belief that each individual alone has the power and right to determine how to act in the state (15-17). Rousseau and Kant are right to claim that reason is inalienable, and that each individual is sovereign in having the power and right to ascertain general moral principles. But this does not give them, Rehberg argu

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