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    It is not the case that Abstract, ahistorical, and universal rights are doubly mistaken as a basis for government.

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    • 1.Government does not have the end of uncovering civil liberties.
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    • 2.The project of 'uncovering civil liberties' is particularly disruptive when pursued abstractly.
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    • 1.Rights claims require shared social practices and institutions to be intelligible, as MacIntyre argues in 'After Virtue': rights without community are fictions.
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    • 2.Universal rights declarations historically produce conflict when imposed on societies with incompatible moral traditions, as Burke observed in the French Revolution.
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    • 3.A government grounded in evolved constitutional tradition better secures liberty than one reconstructed from abstract first principles.
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    • 1.Hegel's Philosophy of Right demonstrates that genuine freedom is actualized only through historically developed ethical institutions, not pre-social abstractions.
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    • 2.Abstract rights divorced from historical context cannot adjudicate conflicts between competing rights claims without importing hidden substantive values.
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