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    It is not the case that A people may be justified in alienating their rights to adjudicate disputes and self-defense to a sovereign

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    • 1.Locke demonstrates that adjudication and enforcement can be delegated to government without full alienation, preserving the people's right to revoke that trust upon breach.
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    • 2.The alienation model conflates the surrender of a right with the conditional delegation of its exercise, which are distinct acts with different normative consequences.
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    • 3.If the distinction holds, then inalienable self-governance rights survive the social contract, undermining absolute sovereignty as the necessary solution to the state of nature.
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    • 1.Alienating the right to self-defense is logically impossible, as Hobbes himself concedes that individuals retain the right to resist the sword even under sovereignty.
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    • 2.A transfer that cannot be completed even in principle cannot serve as the foundation for legitimate political obligation.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Without a sovereign, the state of nature produces life that is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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    • 2.Alienating rights to a sovereign is the only way to keep the peace given the nature of the state of nature
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