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Natural-Rights
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Enough and As Good
The whole case rests on five words Locke let slip and then seemed to take back. This part defends them against the three attacks that matter: that Locke abandoned the proviso, that it is an open door to theft, and the serious one, that no …
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From Plunder to Justice: A New Foundation of Law and Liberty
Law has one just purpose, to defend natural rights, and never to plunder them. But the hardest case for any philosophy of liberty is land, which no one made and everyone needs. Working from self-ownership and Locke’s own forgotten …