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Equality and Legitimacy


ISBN13: 9780199545179
Published: April 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £92.00



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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 seeks to demonstrate 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 nullreflective equilibriumnull 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, nullluck egalitarianismnull: 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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Jurisprudence