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    Therefore, liberties of action are instrumentally useful ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Liberties of action — including freedom of association, freedom of worship, and freedom to choose one's occupation — are necessary for self-government.

    Therefore, liberties of action are instrumentally useful but not constitutively necessary for self-government.

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    • 1.Self-government requires rational deliberation about collective ends, which can occur through constrained debate structures without unlimited action freedoms.
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    • 2.Historical examples show regulated societies with restricted liberties maintained robust democratic decision-making and citizen participation in governance.
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    • 3.Action liberties can undermine self-government when they enable powerful actors to dominate deliberation, suggesting constraints may strengthen collective agency.
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    • 1.Genuine self-determination requires individuals possess real capacity to act on their political convictions; purely theoretical input without practical liberty is hollow.
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    • 2.Restricting action liberties concentrates enforcement power in state institutions, creating asymmetric power structures that contradict democratic self-governance principles.
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    • 3.Citizens develop political competence and agency through exercising freedoms; purely deliberative models without action experience atrophy the capacities self-government requires.
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