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    It is not the case that There is a vital linkage between the integrity of personhood and democratic citizenship

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    • 1.Democratic citizenship is constituted by procedural rights and legal standing, not by psychological wholeness or developmental conditions.
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    • 2.Rawlsian political liberalism deliberately brackets comprehensive doctrines of personhood to preserve democratic pluralism across divergent conceptions of the self.
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    • 3.Grounding citizenship in a thick account of personal integrity risks illiberal exclusion of those whose selfhood diverges from the normative standard.
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    • 1.Hannah Arendt distinguishes the political realm sharply from private identity, holding that citizenship belongs to the public sphere of action, not the interior life of the person.
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    • 2.Importing psychological integrity into democratic theory conflates the social question with the political question, which Arendt warns distorts and ultimately destroys genuine political freedom.
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    • 1.Democratic citizenship requires persons capable of meeting its full responsibilities and enjoying its full benefits
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    • 2.The capacity to fulfill citizenship depends on the integrity and healthy development of the person
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    • 3.Education free of resource-impoverishment and psychic distortion is necessary for developing that integrity of personhood
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