Sept/Oct 2013
Neg: Voting Not a Duty
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Voting not a duty
The value of voting can be reasonably contested. RMF
Lever, Annabelle. 2009. Is Compulsory Voting Justified Public Reason 1 (1): 57-74.
Still, it will not be easy to ground a general duty to vote on this natural duty, because in general it is unclear why support for just institutions should take the form of electoral participation, rather than anything else.
Reasonable people can disagree about the value of political participation relative to other forms of social
participation and support, and even those who value political participation may disagree about the value of
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