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    A covenant made without present performance is valid and ... — Carmelics
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    A covenant made without present performance is valid and binding when a common power exists over both parties with sufficient right and force to compel performance.

    Justice & PunishmentSocial Contract
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    • 1.A coercive power capable of enforcing agreements removes the rational basis for suspicion that the other party will not perform.
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    • 2.Without the problem of unilateral betrayal, the covenant is no longer void on grounds of reasonable suspicion.
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    • 1.Obligation's normative force derives from consent or moral duty, not from the threat of external compulsion.
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    • 2.A covenant binding only because of coercive enforcement confuses prudential compliance with genuine moral obligation.
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    • 3.Hobbes thereby reduces promise-keeping to self-interest under threat, which Kant's categorical imperative tradition rejects as a foundation for genuine duty.
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    • 1.Hume argues that the obligation of promises arises from a conventional practice with intrinsic social utility, independent of sovereign enforcement.
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    • 2.If validity depended solely on a common power, promises would lose all binding force in stateless or international contexts where no such power exists, which contradicts the evident normativity of treaties and pre-political agreements.
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    A coercive power capable of enforcing agreements removes the rational basis for ...A covenant binding only because of coercive enforcement confuses prudential comp...Hobbes thereby reduces promise-keeping to self-interest under threat, which Kant...Hume argues that the obligation of promises arises from a conventional practice ...
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    If a Covenant be made, wherein neither of the parties performe presently, but trust one another; in the condition of meer Nature, (which is a condition of Warre of every man against every man,) upon any reasonable suspition, it is Voyd; But if there be a common Power set over them bothe, with right and force sufficient to compell performance; it is not Voyd. For he that performeth first, has no assurance the other will performe after; because the bonds of words are too weak to bridle mens ambiti
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