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The workplace is the location in which most adults experience the most direct form of authority on a day-to-day basis. While most people hear “authority” and think of “politics,” the quotidian experience of US adults does not involve political relations so much as workplace ones. However, despite supposedly being free and equal political beings, employees are forced to contract themselves into a subordinate position in which they are subject to the managerial authority of their superiors. Workplace democracy (henceforth WD) broadly refers to the idea that the workplace ought to be democratized. This paper takes up the existing literature advocating for workplace democracy and introduces the notion of separating the Workplace Constitution into External and Internal Workplace Constitutions. Deliberative democratic theory is another dense field within democratic literature, but it has been largely absent from conversations surrounding workplace democracy. This paper makes the case that deliberation not only strengthens claims for workplace democracy but is, in fact, essential for workplace democracy to accomplish its aims.

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