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    Public reason accounts face the further challenge of showing that public justification is required for political legitimacy.

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    • 1.Political authority necessarily involves coercive enforcement of norms on persons who may reasonably reject the underlying rationale.
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    • 2.Coercion imposed on terms that the coerced could not reasonably accept constitutes a fundamental violation of their standing as autonomous agents.
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    • 3.Any account of legitimacy that permits such coercion without justificatory constraint fails to respect the moral equality of persons subject to political power.
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    • 1.Estlund's 'Queen of the Nazis' argument shows that epistemic proceduralism requires acceptability constraints to avoid legitimating monstrous outcomes.
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    • 2.Acceptability constraints function only if there exists a standard of what counts as a reasonable basis for acceptance or rejection of political norms.
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    • 3.Public justifiability provides the only principled, non-arbitrary criterion for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate exercises of political authority.
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    • 1.Even if Simmons' objection against Rawlsian public reason accounts is refuted, it remains an open question whether public justification is a necessary condition for political legitimacy.
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    • 2.Enoch (2015) raises this challenge against public reason approaches.
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    Simmons (2001) criticizes Rawls’ approach for mistakenly blurring the distinction between justifying the state and political legitimacy (see also section 2.3.). A Rawlsian could reply, however, that the problem of legitimacy centrally involves the justification of coercion and that legitimacy should thus be understood as what creates—rather than merely justifies—political authority. The following thought supports this claim. Rawls—in Political Liberalism—explicitly focuses on the democratic cont
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