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A response to jeremy waldrons law and disagreement. This article considers jeremy waldrons recent contribution to a growing conversation about how to make political theory and philosophy more responsive to real politicspolitical political theoryin light of his broader body of work, especially law and disagreement. Law and disagreement available in hardcover, nook book. I argue that rather than providing a genuine alternative to the idealization and abstraction characteristic of what waldron. The only alternatives to making this distinction between reasonable and unreasonable objections are a to make no objections matter in this way, contrary to the liberal approach, or b to make all.
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