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    Lack of purchasing power constitutes a constraint on nega... — Carmelics
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    Lack of purchasing power constitutes a constraint on negative liberty, not merely a personal inability.

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    • 1.MacCallum's triadic framework shows freedom is always 'freedom of X from Y to do Z', where Y includes any preventing condition, not only intentional acts.
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    • 2.Coercive background rules establishing property rights are human-made constraints that systematically prevent the poor from accessing resources others can freely use.
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    • 3.Cohen argues that laws criminalizing takings without payment are what actually prevent the poor from acting, making the constraint social and interpersonal, not merely natural.
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    • 1.Hobbes himself defined liberty as absence of external impediments, and legally enforced price barriers are external impediments created by deliberate social arrangements.
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    • 2.The distinction between inability and unfreedom collapses when the inability is itself produced and maintained by enforceable legal structures rather than natural facts.
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    • 1.If a person lacks money to purchase a good, any attempt to take that good will be met with preventive actions or punishment by the shopkeeper or agents of the state.
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    • 2.Such preventive actions or punishment constitute interpersonal interference.
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    • 3.Interpersonal interference is precisely what the negative concept of liberty is concerned with.
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    Is it necessary to refer to internal constraints in order to make sense of the phenomena of oppression and structural injustice? Some might contest this view, or say that it is true only up to a point, for there are at least two reasons for thinking that the oppressed are lacking in negative liberty. First, while Berlin himself equated economic and social disadvantages with natural disabilities, claiming that neither represented constraints on negative liberty but only on personal abilities, man
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    Such preventive actions or punishment constitute interpersonal interference.
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