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    Challenges→There is a vital linkage between the integrity of personhood and democratic citizenship

    Rawlsian political liberalism deliberately brackets comprehensive doctrines of personhood to preserve democratic pluralism across divergent conceptions of the self.

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    • 1.Bracketing comprehensive doctrines prevents majoritarian imposition of particular conceptions of human flourishing on minorities.
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    • 2.Political liberalism's neutrality enables citizens with fundamentally incompatible worldviews to coexist under shared institutions.
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    • 3.Focusing on overlapping consensus regarding rights sidesteps intractable metaphysical disputes about personhood that paralyze legislation.
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    • 1.Bracketing personhood doctrines is impossible; principles of equality and autonomy already embed liberal conceptions of the self.
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    • 2.This neutrality claim masks substantive choices favoring individualistic over communal or religious understandings of human identity.
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    • 3.Citizens' deepest convictions about personhood inevitably shape policy preferences, making true bracketing psychologically unrealistic.
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