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    The legislator is Rousseau's attempted solution to the pr... — Carmelics
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    The legislator is Rousseau's attempted solution to the problem of founding a legitimate state with good laws.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.The legislator inspires a sense of collective identity in new citizens.
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    • 2.This collective identity allows citizens to identify with the whole and support legislation that will transform them and their children into good citizens.
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    • 1.The legislator's authority depends on extra-rational persuasion, invoking divine sanction to bypass citizens' rational consent.
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    • 2.A founding process that circumvents rational deliberation cannot itself be legitimate by Rousseau's own standard of the general will.
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    • 3.Therefore, the legislator introduces a performative contradiction at the heart of Rousseau's theory of legitimate founding.
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    • 1.Kant argued that legitimate political authority must be grounded in principles all rational agents could autonomously endorse, not in historically contingent acts of a founding genius.
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    • 2.Rousseau's legislator exerts a paternalistic, pre-political shaping of the very wills whose consent is supposed to legitimate the state.
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    • 3.A process that manufactures the civic identity needed to validate its own outcome cannot provide the independent foundation that legitimacy requires.
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    The Social Contract harbors a further tension between two accounts of how the general will emerges and its relation to the private wills of citizens. Sometimes Rousseau favors a procedural story according to which the individual contemplation of self interest (subject to the constraints of generality and universality and under propitious sociological background conditions such as rough equality and cultural similarity) will result in the emergence of the general will from the assembly of citizen
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