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    It is not the case that All civil dominium is ultimately grounded in property use rather than legislative authority

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    • 1.Hobbes argues that property rights are entirely constituted by sovereign command, having no existence prior to or independent of civil law.
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    • 2.If dominium requires enforcement mechanisms to be meaningful, then legislative authority is logically prior to property use, not derivative of it.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that human law derives its authority from natural law and reason, not from patterns of use or possession of material goods.
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    • 2.Wyclif's conflation of postlapsarian justice with property use commits a genetic fallacy, deriving normative authority from contingent historical conditions of the Fall.
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    • 1.Wyclif defines civil dominium as proprietary lordship over goods of fortune according to human law
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    • 2.All civil dominium is based on the use of goods owned
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    • 3.The use of owned goods is the basis for all postlapsarian conceptions of justice
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