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    The dominant group has little reason to resist demands fo... — Carmelics
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    The dominant group has little reason to resist demands for codification of its own privileges

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    • 1.The rules being codified are designed to benefit the dominant group
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    • 2.If the rules benefit the dominant group, codifying and enforcing them imposes no significant cost on that group
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    • 1.Codification transforms tacit privilege into explicit, contestable legal form, creating grounds for legal challenge that informal dominance avoids.
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    • 2.Dominant groups historically prefer customary, unwritten advantage precisely because articulated rules invite scrutiny, revision, and resistance from subordinated groups.
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    • 3.Burke and Oakeshott both observed that codifying informal social arrangements destabilizes them by subjecting organic practice to rational critique.
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    • 1.Dominant groups benefit from maintaining ambiguity in privilege allocation, since explicit codification forecloses ad hoc discretionary advantages that exceed any fixed rule.
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    • 2.Pettit's own analysis of domination suggests that formal rules constrain the powerful as well as the powerless, limiting arbitrary interference in both directions.
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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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