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    It is not the case that Therefore, Humean laws do not constrain agents from without but are partly constituted by their actions, undercutting the claim that Humeanism leaves deterministic unfreedom intact.

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    • 1.Even if laws are constituted by past actions, present and future agents still face fixed lawlike regularities they cannot alter, maintaining deterministic constraints.
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    • 2.Partial constitution of laws by some agents' actions does not liberate other agents from those same laws, which still determine their behavior externally.
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    • 3.Saying agents constitute laws only relocates the problem: if constituting actions were themselves determined, the resulting laws still leave no free alternative.
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    • 1.If laws are constituted partly by actual agent actions, then laws depend on agents' choices rather than existing independently to constrain them.
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    • 2.When agents partly constitute the laws governing them, those laws reflect their own causal powers, making compliance expressive rather than coercive.
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    • 3.Humean laws lack the metaphysical force to determine outcomes; agents' decisions help shape what counts as lawful, preserving meaningful agency.
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