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    The mechanism by which self-interest yields impartial law... — Carmelics
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    The mechanism by which self-interest yields impartial laws requires that citizens' situations be substantially similar to one another

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.If citizens' situations differ substantially, the impact of general laws will not be the same for everyone
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    • 2.When impacts differ, a citizen cannot occupy the standpoint of the general will merely by imagining the law's impact on their own case
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    • 1.Rawls demonstrates that impartial legislation can emerge from radical situational difference when deliberators are placed behind a veil of ignorance about their own position.
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    • 2.The veil of ignorance is a procedural mechanism that achieves impartiality without requiring substantive similarity, showing similarity is sufficient but not necessary for general will reasoning.
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    • 1.Hegel's critique of abstract universality holds that laws genuinely responsive to a differentiated civil society must incorporate, not erase, structural differences among citizens.
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    • 2.A general will that presupposes situational similarity cannot be truly general, since it tacitly encodes the perspective of those already similarly situated as the norm.
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    Rousseau argues that in order for the general will to be truly general it must come from all and apply to all. This thought has both substantive and formal aspects. Formally, Rousseau argues that the law must be general in application and universal in scope. The law cannot name particular individuals and it must apply to everyone within the state. Rousseau believes that this condition will lead citizens, though guided by a consideration of what is in their own private interest, to favor laws tha
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