It is a good goal for political power in a society to be, in the aggregate, evenly distributed across members of that society.

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  • There are many many decisions to which political power can be applied, and some certainly impact different constituents more or less, but "in the aggregate" this seems like a good default. At least, I could imagine saying that the burden of proof is heavier for those supporting an uneven aggregate distribution of political power.

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  • One potential problem with this framing is that "political power" isn't separated into "whose goals do we try to achieve?" vs. "how do we try to achieve the goals". I could imagine one arguing that the first part should be evenly distributed but the second should not.

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