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    It is not the case that The institutional design of radical democracy cannot be specified in advance and must emerge through the process of reconstruction itself.

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    • 1.Rawls demonstrates that principles of just institutions can be derived procedurally prior to their instantiation, via the original position.
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    • 2.If normative frameworks can precede institutional design, the claim that design must emerge only through reconstruction is falsified.
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    • 3.Habermas similarly shows that discourse ethics supplies trans-contextual standards institutions must satisfy before any reconstructive process begins.
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    • 1.Burke and Oakeshott argue that institutions embody accumulated practical wisdom that purely emergent reconstruction systematically destroys without replacement.
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    • 2.A design process with no prior specification lacks criteria to distinguish progressive reconstruction from regressive institutional collapse.
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    • 3.The Weimar Republic's collapse illustrates that emergent constitutional redesign without pre-committed normative constraints enables authoritarian capture.
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    • 1.Radical democracy requires overhauling current governance arrangements.
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    • 2.The design of new governance forms can only emerge through the process of reconstruction itself.
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    • 3.Collectives, not theorists, are responsible for establishing new forms of governance.
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