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    A covenant is voided by fear only if the cause of that fe... — Carmelics
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    A covenant is voided by fear only if the cause of that fear arises after the covenant was made.

    Justice & PunishmentSocial Contract
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    • 1.The cause of fear that makes a covenant invalid must be a new fact or sign of unwillingness to perform, arising after the covenant was made.
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    • 2.Whatever could not hinder a man from making a promise ought not to be admitted as a hindrance to performing that promise.
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    • 1.A covenant made under duress lacks genuine consent from its inception, regardless of when the fear originated.
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    • 2.Hobbes himself concedes that covenants extorted by force in the state of nature bind only so long as no better option exists, making temporal origin irrelevant to validity.
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    • 3.If the fear that motivated the covenant was never removed, the coerced party remains in the same unfree condition as when they agreed, nullifying the consent retroactively.
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    • 1.Rawlsian fair agreement requires that no party exploit a position of unjust advantage, making agreements void when founded on structural coercion predating the covenant.
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    • 2.Distinguishing pre-existing from post-arising fear privileges the aggressor who manufactures fear early, rewarding those who establish dominance before formal agreement.
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    The cause of Feare, which maketh such a Covenant invalid, must be alwayes something arising after the Covenant made; as some new fact, or other signe of the Will not to performe; else it cannot make the Covenant Voyd. For that which could not hinder a man from promising, ought not to be admitted as a hindrance of performing.
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