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    If validity depended solely on a common power, promises w... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A covenant made without present performance is valid and binding when a common power exists over both parties with sufficient right and force to compel performance.

    If validity depended solely on a common power, promises would lose all binding force in stateless or international contexts where no such power exists, which contradicts the evident normativity of treaties and pre-political agreements.

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    Key Terms

    binding force(as used in ethics and law)
    The power to create a real obligation that people should follow, not just a suggestion.
    normativity(Explained via rational willing in the Kantian framework)
    The property of norms that makes them requirements incumbent on all agents.
    pre-political agreements(as used in political philosophy)
    Promises or deals made between people before any government existed to enforce them.
    stateless(as used in political philosophy)
    A situation or place where there is no government or central authority in charge.
    treaties(as used in political philosophy and law)
    Formal agreements between groups or nations that commit them to follow certain rules.

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    validity(Formal logic; distinguished from syntactic deducibility)
    The model-theoretic counterpart to deducibility; an argument is valid if its conclusion is true under every interpretation in which its premises are true

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