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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Rawls's two principles of justice will gain citizens' willing and stable allegiance.

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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