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The proper provisions of a democratic constitution institutionalize the 
formative principle of comunicative respect. This means that the political 
association is constituted as a full and free political discourse: full in the sense 
that the discourse takes no moral principle or norm, including the formative 
principle of communicative respect itself, to be immune to criticism; and free 
in the sense that all individuals who are subject to the common decisions of 
the association have an equal right to participate in it. Full and free discourse 
in this sense characterizes the process by which governance of the political 
association is determined. 

The proper provisions of a democratic constitution institutionalize the formative principle of comunicative respect. This means that the political association is constituted as a full and free political discourse: full in the sense that the discourse takes no moral principle or norm, including the formative principle of communicative respect itself, to be immune to criticism; and free in the sense that all individuals who are subject to the common decisions of the association have an equal right to participate in it. Full and free discourse in this sense characterizes the process by which governance of the political association is determined. 

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