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    Rawls's two principles of justice will gain citizens' wil... — Carmelics
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    Rawls's two principles of justice will gain citizens' willing and stable allegiance.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.The social world created by the two principles is experienced as a good by citizens.
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    • 2.When citizens experience institutions as good, they give those institutions willing and stable allegiance.
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    • 1.Citizens' allegiance is shaped by particular cultural, religious, and communal identities that precede and constrain abstract principles of justice.
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    • 2.Rawls's principles, derived behind a veil of ignorance, abstract away precisely the thick moral commitments that historically motivate civic loyalty.
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    • 3.A social order that brackets citizens' deepest self-understandings cannot generate the motivational bonds required for stable allegiance.
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    • 1.Stability grounded in overlapping consensus remains contingent on the perpetuation of reasonable pluralism, which cannot itself be guaranteed by the two principles.
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    • 2.Rawlsian institutions that redistribute opportunity and wealth create structured winners and losers whose material interests persistently undermine principled allegiance.
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    Given that the two principles are congruent with citizens’ good, Rawls argues that it is reasonable to suppose that citizens will develop a desire to act in accordance with them. People become attached to people and institutions that they see benefiting them, and the two principles create a social world in which each citizen can pursue her own ends on a basis of mutual respect with other citizens. Since this is experienced as a good, the principles will gain citizens’ willing and stable allegian
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