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    It is not the case that The transition from the state of nature to the civil state requires the universal renunciation of certain natural rights and the investment of those prerogatives in a central authority.

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    • 1.Locke argues that natural rights to life, liberty, and property are inalienable and cannot be legitimately transferred to any sovereign authority.
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    • 2.A transfer of rights that includes the power to violate those very rights dissolves the rational basis for consenting to civil society in the first place.
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    • 3.Therefore, civil authority is bounded by prior natural rights rather than constituted by their universal renunciation.
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    • 1.Proudhon and later anarchist thinkers demonstrate that decentralized, voluntary associations can produce social order without concentrating prerogatives in a single authority.
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    • 2.If coordinated restraint of passion-driven self-interest is achievable through horizontal mutual obligation, the necessity of a central sovereign holding surrendered rights is an unwarranted empirical assumption, not a logical entailment.
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    • 1.In the state of nature, each person seeks his own advantage without limitation.
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    • 2.Natural rights such as the right of avenging oneself and judging good and evil must be surrendered to establish civil order.
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    • 3.A central authority is needed to hold these prerogatives in order to restrain passion-driven self-interest.
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