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    It is not the case that The state functions as a class state serving the rich and propertied.

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    • 1.Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie demonstrates that the state embodies universal ethical life (Sittlichkeit) irreducible to any particular class interest.
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    • 2.Civil society's particular interests are systematically mediated and corrected by state institutions representing the universal will.
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    • 3.A state that successfully adjudicates between competing class factions cannot itself be the instrument of only one faction.
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    • 1.Rawls's original position shows that rational agents behind a veil of ignorance would design institutions protecting the least advantaged, not the propertied.
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    • 2.If actual liberal states partially instantiate such principles through welfare provisions and legal equality, they falsify the claim of pure class function.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The state is guided by the common interest of the rich and propertied.
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    • 2.The state imposes unfreedom and subordination on the poor and weak.
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