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    People are required to enter into a civil constitution th... — Carmelics
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    People are required to enter into a civil constitution that settles ownership on a basis fair to all.

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    • 1.The principle requiring people to act so that external objects can be used as property is binding.
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    • 2.Full legitimacy of property requires ratification by an arrangement that respects everyone's interests.
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    • 3.A civil constitution is the arrangement that settles who owns what on a basis fair to all.
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    • 1.Pre-political property rights grounded in labor or first occupation are fully legitimate without civil ratification (Locke, Second Treatise §27).
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    • 2.A requirement to submit natural property rights to collective civil settlement permits majoritarian appropriation of legitimately held individual property.
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    • 1.Spontaneous orders, not civil constitutions, most reliably produce fair distributions of property through dispersed knowledge coordination (Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty).
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    • 2.Mandating a civil constitution to settle ownership presupposes that centralized deliberate design can determine fairness better than evolved institutional practice, a presupposition that lacks empirical and epistemic warrant.
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    Immanuel Kant’s work on property is more formal and abstract than Locke’s and—at least until recently-it was less well-known. (But now see Byrd and Hruschka 2006 and Ripstein 2009.) Kant began by emphasizing a general connection between property and agency, maintaining that there would be an affront to agency and thus to human personality, if some system were not arrived at which could permit useful objects to be used. He inferred from this that ‘it is a duty of right to act towards others so th
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