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    It is not the case that The best form of government can be determined by experience alone.

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    • 1.Experience requires interpretation through prior normative principles to determine which outcomes count as governmental 'success' or 'failure'.
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    • 2.Without rational criteria external to experience, empirical observation of governance cannot distinguish better from worse constitutional arrangements.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's critical philosophy demonstrates that pure empiricism cannot ground prescriptive claims, only descriptive regularities about what has occurred.
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    • 2.A claim about the 'best' form of government is irreducibly normative and cannot be derived from historical facts alone without committing the is-ought fallacy Hume identified.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Reason by itself cannot determine which specific laws or constitutions are best.
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    • 2.Determining the best government requires seeing which laws have the greatest utility under specific circumstances.
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