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    It is not the case that Without a government, individuals lack objectively defined laws, and therefore the boundaries of their property rights are unclear.

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    • 1.Customary law and common law traditions demonstrate that binding property norms can emerge from decentralized social practice without state legislation.
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    • 2.Hayek's spontaneous order thesis holds that legal rules governing property can achieve functional clarity through evolutionary social processes, not top-down codification.
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    • 3.The historical existence of lex mercatoria and indigenous property regimes refutes the premise that objective legal boundaries require a formal government to define them.
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    • 1.Locke's natural law theory holds that property rights are grounded in labor-mixing and reason, giving them determinate moral content prior to and independent of any civil government.
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    • 2.If property rights derive their objectivity from natural law discernible by reason, then government codification is epistemic confirmation, not the metaphysical source, of those rights.
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    • 1.Individuals in a state of nature do not have a government.
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    • 2.Without a government, there are no objectively defined laws.
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    • 3.Without objectively defined laws, the boundaries of property rights are unclear.
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