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The purpose of this study is to suggest the model which specifically analyzes a political discourse with the reflective equilibrium. The reflective equilibrium which is not only process but result of moral judgement, usually pursues principle and coherence of moral judgement. This kind of moral reasoning can be very useful for a political discourse analysis because a political discourse has reasoning features, and an argumentative text should pursue coherence. Therefore, this study would like to suggest the reasoning model based on the reflective equilibrium as specific method for political discourse analysis combining reasoning feature of political discourse with reflective equilibrium. For the purpose of this study, firstly, it explores Top-down and Bottom-up features, examines the limitation of these kinds of methodologies, and compares the reflective equilibrium in moral reasoning. The reflective equilibrium pursues not only consistency, but also coherence between principles and moral judgements respectively through dialectical procedure. Second, this study examines the types of argumentation in order to use the reflective equilibrium as the method for validity of moral reasoning. This study confirms that practical argument which is one of the primary types in political discourse, pursues reflective equilibrium. With these discussions, this study induces argumentation model pursuing the reflective equilibrium. The first rule of this model is to refine the problematic situation precisely. The second one is to set the goal of argumentation accurately. Third one is to analyse value and principle for both recognizing problematic situation and evaluating goal of argumentation. The fourth one is to selecting the action for solution of problematic situation. The fifth one is to select the action as the means achieving the goal of argumentation. These five rules pursue that problematic situation, goal of argumentation, and action can be related with principle through subordinate rules as coherence relation.