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Professor Hinton’s core argument is for parties to best represent their citizens they need to choose the radical democratic specification, of Rawls’s equal basic liberty principal. Despite the liberal democratic specification, freedom from racial denomination dominants over freedom to choose one’s systems of final ends and it doesn’t offer strong protection for the former, making the radical democratic specification the best choice (Hinton, 2015, pg. 171). Hinton has two reasons why parties will select the radical democratic specification. First, parties will choose this out of self-respect (Hinton, 2015, pg. 172). Racial denomination in a society, undermines the self-respect of those who are being dominated (Hinton, 2015, pg. 172). Members

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