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    The political authority of a democratic assembly is entai... — Carmelics
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    The political authority of a democratic assembly is entailed by an account of the conditions under which citizens may legitimately exercise coercive power over one another.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.In a democracy, the right to rule is created by those who are ruled.
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    • 2.There is no sharp division between 'binders' and 'bound' in a democracy.
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    • 3.Democratic authority therefore derives from the very conditions that license mutual coercion among citizens.
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    • 1.Majority rule can systematically exclude persistent minorities, making democratic coercion illegitimate for those who never consent and cannot exit.
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    • 2.Rousseau's 'general will' and Rawls's 'reasonable pluralism' both concede that procedural democracy fails to generate substantive legitimacy for all subjects.
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    • 3.Therefore, democratic assembly authority cannot be fully entailed by mutual-coercion licensing conditions, since those conditions require reciprocity that majority rule structurally denies.
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    • 1.Legitimate coercive authority requires that subjects have genuine access to the normative reasons justifying that authority, not merely procedural participation.
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    • 2.Estlund's epistemic proceduralism and Christiano's work both show that democratic outcomes can be systematically wrong in ways that sever the epistemic link between procedure and justification.
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    • 3.An account of mutual coercion licensing grounded in epistemic adequacy therefore does not automatically entail democratic assembly authority when democratic majorities are reliably mistaken.
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    Simmons (2001) criticizes Rawls’ approach for mistakenly blurring the distinction between justifying the state and political legitimacy (see also section 2.3.). A Rawlsian could reply, however, that the problem of legitimacy centrally involves the justification of coercion and that legitimacy should thus be understood as what creates—rather than merely justifies—political authority. The following thought supports this claim. Rawls—in Political Liberalism—explicitly focuses on the democratic cont
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