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    Challenges→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.

    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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    Democratic assembly(the subject of discussion in this statement)
    A group of people who make decisions together by voting, where each person typically gets an equal say.
    Majority rule(described as structurally denying reciprocity)
    A decision-making system where whatever the larger half of a group wants becomes the binding choice for everyone.
    Mutual-coercion licensing conditions(a potential explanation for why democratic authority works)
    Rules or requirements where everyone agrees to enforce restrictions on each other's behavior in exchange for the same restrictions being placed on everyone else.
    Structurally denies(describing how majority rule prevents reciprocity)
    Built into the very nature of something in a way that prevents or makes impossible; the system itself doesn't allow for this to happen.

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    authority(as another method a physician might use to ensure patients comply with treatment)
    The power or right to make decisions and have others follow them, based on expertise or position. A doctor has authority because of their medical knowledge.
    entailed(as used in logic)
    When one thing logically forces another thing to be true—if the first is true, the second must be true too.
    reciprocity(Condition for full intersubjective communion in disponibilité.)
    The mutual presence of availability in both parties of an intersubjective relationship, necessary for the relationship to fully realize itself though it cannot be demanded.

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