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    Subordinate groups, unable to directly challenge dominant... — Carmelics
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    Subordinate groups, unable to directly challenge dominant power, pursue codification of existing rights as a strategic alternative

    Rights & LibertySocial Contract
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    • 1.Subordinate groups lack the power to directly challenge the dominant group's preeminence
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    • 2.Demanding that rights and privileges be written down, codified, and impartially enforced is a viable indirect strategy for the less powerful
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    • 1.Codification of rights within an existing legal order implicitly legitimizes the authority of the dominant group to define and enforce those rights.
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    • 2.Marx and critical legal scholars (e.g., Unger) argue that formal legal rights entrench structural power asymmetries rather than neutralizing them.
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    • 3.A strategy that depends on the dominant group's institutions for enforcement cannot be genuinely emancipatory for subordinate groups.
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    • 1.Piven and Cloward's historical analysis shows subordinate groups achieve greatest gains through disruptive direct action, not legalistic codification strategies.
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    • 2.Codification strategies presuppose stable institutional goodwill, but dominant groups routinely reinterpret or selectively enforce written rights to preserve hierarchy.
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    Suppose that for various historical, economic, and cultural reasons, one group in some society manages to acquire a preponderance of social power, which it wields over the other groups in that society directly and without constraint, much to its own benefit. Since the subordinate groups are in no position to challenge directly the preeminence of the powerful group, they instead demand only that the various rights and privileges of the latter be written down, codified, and impartially enforced by
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