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    It is not the case that Rand and Ghate's position implies that the Founding Fathers, if isolated without a government, could not have defined rights or established fair adjudication — an implausible consequence.

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    • 1.Rand and Ghate hold that individuals without a government cannot produce objective laws defining the limits of their liberties.
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    • 2.The Founding Fathers were capable of articulating rights and systems of adjudication as demonstrated by the Bill of Rights.
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    • 3.It is implausible that being temporarily without a government would deprive the Founding Fathers of the capacity to define rights among themselves.
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