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DISCUSSION. Freedom of Association Is Not the Answer*. Sarah Fine Cosmopolitan liberals have long argued that, contrary to prevailing practices and assumptions, there is a tension between liberal princi- ples, on the one hand, and the coercively enforced borders and ex- clusive membership practices that are familiar features of nation states, on the other In that vein, it has become common to emphasize the liberal commitments to universalism and moral equality and to highlight the moral arbitrariness of birth place in order to question the relevance of borders in relation to a person's rights and oppor- tunities. It is notable, too, that liberal principles are often regarded as the universalist antidote to the more particularist or exclusionary tendencies of the other features (sovereignty, nationality, democracy).
Fine Freedom of Association Is Not the Answer 339 dom of association and exclusion: few would argue with Amy Gutmann’s statement that “the freedom to associate . . . entails the freedom to
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