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    It is not the case that The dominant group has little reason to resist demands for codification of its own privileges

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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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    • 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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