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    It is not the case that The serious form of the impossibility objection is that it is impossible to form a good state or federation of global magnitude

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    • 1.Kant's Perpetual Peace argues a voluntary federation of republics (Völkerbund) achieves peace without requiring a world state with coercive authority.
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    • 2.The absence of a single sovereign global state does not preclude cosmopolitan law governing individuals across borders.
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    • 3.Kant explicitly rejected world government as prone to despotism, showing 'good' global order need not mean unified political magnitude.
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    • 1.Existing transnational institutions like the EU demonstrate that partial, layered political unions can achieve justice-promoting functions without full federation.
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    • 2.The impossibility objection conflates 'global magnitude' with monolithic centralization, ignoring polycentric governance models advanced by Ostrom and others.
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    • 1.The weak form of the impossibility objection — that global political union cannot be formed at all — is undermined by existing examples
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    • 2.A stronger objection would target whether such a union could be good, worth pursuing, or free from prohibitive risks
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