Assertion: government's decision | /r/HasProperty | legitimate
Facets:
value: as long as they are
type: OTHER
value: in virtue of the procedure
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Unlike aggregative democracy, deliberative democracy holds that, for a democratic decision to be legitimate, it must be preceded by authentic deliberation, not merely the aggregation of preferences that occurs in voting.
text: Insofar as democracy is seen as necessary for political legitimacy, when are democratic decisions legitimate?
text: Of course, a political decision that is legitimate in virtue of the procedure in which it has been made may not be fully just.
text: According to pure proceduralist conceptions of democratic legitimacy, democratic decisions are legitimate as long as they are the result of an appropriately constrained process of democratic decision-making.
text: On an account of aggregative democracy—which takes the aggregation of individual preferences, for example through voting, to be the key feature of democracy—pure proceduralism implies that democratic decisions are legitimate if the aggregative process is fair.