Fairness as a Meta-Norm: Structural Legitimacy and the Meta-Right to Structural Fairness
Abstract Political philosophy has long located legitimacy in the fairness of procedures, the justice of outcomes, or the acceptability of coercive rules under conditions of public reason. On the standard picture, if institutions follow fair rules, respect fundamental rights, and operate with moral integrity, their authority is at least minimally justified (Rawls, 1971; Scanlon, 1998;…

