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    It is not the case that Subordinate groups, unable to directly challenge dominant power, pursue codification of existing rights as a strategic alternative

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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