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Community and the Individual
Social compact v. individual liberty (aka "natural rights")
Thomas Hobbes, "state of Nature"
From Leviathan(1651): "The RIGHT OF NATURE, which Writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the Liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himselfe, for the preservation of his own Nature; that is to say, of his own Life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own Judgement, and Reason, hee shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The Social Contract (1762): "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."
From Wikipedia entry: "According to Rousseau, by joining together into civil society through the social contract and abandoning their claims of natural right, individuals can both preserve themselves and remain free. This is because submission to the authority of the general will of the people as a whole guarantees individuals against being subordinated to the wills of others and also ensures that they obey themselves because they are, collectively, the authors of the law." Accessed 8/28/2014
Work: relations of Labor & Capital
i. The value of one's labor
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690): Sec.27. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men
ii. Theft (of land, labor)
a. Chattel Slavery
b. Native peoples (dislocation and dispossession of lands)
iii. Farmers v. Ranchers
iv. Cowboys v. Cattlemen
v. Women and children
Justice
Personal (vengeance and loyalty codes)
Social (the legal system, the posse comitatus--"the power of the community")
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