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    It is not the case that A despot can dispose of subjects as he sees fit

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    • 1.Even despotic rulers depend on intermediary agents whose cooperation requires minimally predictable treatment of subjects (Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws III.10).
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    • 2.A despot who fully disposed of subjects arbitrarily would destroy the productive capacity and loyalty necessary for the regime's own survival.
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    • 3.Therefore structural constraints on despotic disposal of subjects exist independently of formal legal limits.
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    • 1.Locke argues in the Second Treatise that no person can hold legitimate dominion over another beyond what natural law permits, even under conquest.
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    • 2.The claim that a despot 'can' dispose of subjects conflates empirical power with normative entitlement, a distinction foundational to rights theory.
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    • 3.Describing subjects as slaves does not extinguish their natural rights but only describes a wrongful condition, leaving the despot's acts unjust rather than licit.
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    • 1.In despotic states a single person directs everything by his own will and caprice
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    • 2.No laws exist to check the despot's power
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    • 3.Subjects of a despot are no better than slaves
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