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    Representative democracy is not ideal under all historica... — Carmelics
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    Representative democracy is not ideal under all historical and social circumstances

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    • 1.Some societies contain citizens who lack the necessary ingredients of the culture of autonomy to exercise decision-making authority responsibly
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    • 2.Citizens in backward states may lack discipline, education, or an active and independent character
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    • 3.A form of government that does not promote the common good is not the ideal form for that society
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    • 1.The capacity for democratic self-governance is not a prerequisite for democracy but is itself cultivated through democratic participation.
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    • 2.Mill's own argument in Considerations on Representative Government holds that political participation develops the civic virtues it allegedly requires.
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    • 3.Denying democratic rights to populations deemed 'unready' removes the primary mechanism by which democratic readiness is achieved.
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    • 1.The judgment that a society lacks the cultural prerequisites for democracy is structurally indistinguishable from the self-serving reasoning of authoritarian rulers.
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    • 2.Rawls and Habermas both argue that legitimacy requires procedures that cannot be suspended by appeals to outcomes, however well-intentioned.
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    As we noted earlier, Mill does not defend representative democracy as ideal under all historical and social circumstances. There are some social circumstances, he thinks, in which democracy will not promote the common good. These are backward states of society in which most citizens are unfit to rule, because they lack necessary ingredients of the culture of autonomy to exercise decision-making authority responsibly. They lack discipline, or education, or an active and independent character. Dif
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