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    The remedial right only approach does not grant nations a... — Carmelics
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    The remedial right only approach does not grant nations a unilateral right to secede independently of persisting grave injustices.

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    • 1.The remedial right only approach ties the right to secede to patterns of grave injustices.
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    • 2.Nations as such, absent such injustices, are not granted unilateral secession rights under this approach.
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    • 1.Plebiscitary theorists like Harry Beran argue that a sufficiently large, territorially concentrated group has a right to secede based solely on collective democratic will.
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    • 2.If democratic self-determination is foundational to legitimate governance, then requiring prior injustice as a precondition subordinates democratic autonomy to the state's prior conduct.
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    • 3.A theory that denies secession rights to groups suffering no injustice but genuinely preferring self-governance privileges state integrity over democratic consent without principled justification.
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    • 1.Nationalist theorists like David Miller hold that nations possess pre-political identities grounding special obligations and entitlements, including self-governance, independent of whether states have wronged them.
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    • 2.If national identity constitutes a morally significant form of collective agency, then conditioning its political expression on demonstrated victimhood mischaracterizes the normative basis of national self-determination entirely.
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    What the remedial right only approach does not do is concede that nations as such—independently of any persisting pattern of grave injustices—have a unilateral right to secede. But it can be argued that this is a virtue of the account, not a defect. It thereby avoids the objection to which ascriptivist theories are vulnerable, namely, that they endorse a unilateral right to secede for all nations in a world in which virtually every state contains more than one nation and in which nations are not
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