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    Coercion is constitutive of the civil state, not merely a... — Carmelics
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    Coercion is constitutive of the civil state, not merely a means to enforce rights.

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    • 1.Coercion is defined as a restriction of freedom to pursue one's own ends.
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    • 2.Any right of a person implies a restriction for others, independently of whether that right is respected or violated.
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    • 3.Therefore, coercion is part of the idea of rights itself.
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    • 1.Rights can be grounded in voluntary recognition and reciprocal consent, as Locke argues, making coercion a contingent remedy for violations, not a constitutive feature.
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    • 2.If coercion were constitutive of rights, pre-political moral rights would be incoherent, yet Lockean natural rights bind agents prior to any coercive civil apparatus.
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    • 1.Hart distinguishes primary rules of obligation from secondary rules of enforcement; coercion belongs to enforcement mechanisms, not to the normative structure of rights themselves.
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    • 2.A right's correlative duty generates a claim on conduct, not a threat of force; the duty's bindingness is conceptually separable from any sanction that may back it.
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    The civil state, according to Kant, establishes the rights necessary to secure equal freedom. Unlike for Locke and his contemporary followers, however, coercive power is not a secondary feature of the civil state, necessary to back up laws. According to Kant, coercion is part of the idea of rights. The thought can be explained as follows. Coercion is defined as a restriction of the freedom to pursue one’s own ends. Any right of a person—independently of whether it is respected or has been violat
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