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Equality and Legitimacy (Hardcover)
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Equality and Legitimacy (Hardcover)
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This book examines the relationship between the idea of legitimacy
of law in a democratic system and equality, conceived in a
tripartite sense: political, legal, and social. Exploring the
constituent elements of the legal philosophy underlying concepts of
legitimacy, this book demonstrates how a conception of democratic
legitimacy is necessary for understanding and reconciling equality
and political legitimacy by tracing and examining the conceptions
of equality in political, legal, and social dimensions.
In the sphere of political equality this book argues that the best
construction of equality in a democratic system - which resonates
with the legitimizing function of majority rule - is that of
equality of political opportunity. It is largely procedural, but
those procedures represent important substantive values built into
a majoritarian system. In the sphere of legal equality it argues
that a plausible conception of non-discrimination can be
constructed through a "reflective equilibrium" process, and should
reject a thoughtless assumption that the presence of some
particular criteria of differentiations necessarily taints a legal
classification as discriminatory. Finally, the chapters on social
equality explore, in some detail, the currently influential, and
presumptively attractive, "luck egalitarianism": the idea that
social equality calls for neutralizing the disparate effects of bad
brute luck upon a person's position in society.
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