If property rights derive their objectivity from natural law discernible by reason, then government codification is epistemic confirmation, not the metaphysical source, of those rights.
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(The reform strategy pursued by subordinate groups in the scenario)
The process of writing down and formally systematizing rights and privileges so they can be impartially enforced by independent judges
confirmation(Christensen 1999: 441; general epistemological usage)
The epistemic relationship in which current confidence in proposition E helps make rational one's current confidence in hypothesis H
metaphysical / metaphysics(The statement claims that scientific choices actually depend on these deep philosophical assumptions about reality.)
Philosophy that asks fundamental questions about what's really real—like whether minds are physical or something different, or how things truly exist.
natural law(Locke's Essays on the Law of Nature)
A moral-legal framework that satisfies all the requisites of law: grounded in a superior will, rule-establishing, and binding on humans
property rights(Prompted by the breakdown of feudal land tenure and expansion of overseas trade)
Legally and philosophically grounded entitlements to possess and control resources, formed through contract or social agreement in the early modern period