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Deliberative Democracy, Overlapping Consensus, And Same-Sex Marriage, Linda C. Mcclain
Deliberative Democracy, Overlapping Consensus, And Same-Sex Marriage, Linda C. Mcclain
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A pressing concern in political and constitutional theory is how to construct a model of justification in law and politics that offers methods for securing agreement and social cooperation in the face of moral pluralism. A common goal of this work is to elaborate the requirements of deliberative democracy, that is, a model of democratic self-government that "asks citizens and officials to justify public policy by giving reasons that can be accepted by those who are bound by it."' Two fundamental questions are: (1) are there any limits to the grounds to which citizens may appeal or the reasons that …