Locke on Territorial Rights

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6344129
AutoresBas Van Der Vossen (0000-0002-1036-6087, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen63
Número3
Páginas713-728
Fecha de publicación2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9248.12106
OpenAlexW2147396336
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas19

Most treatments of territorial rights include a discussion (and rejection) of Locke. There is a remarkable consensus about what Locke's views were. For him, states obtain territorial rights as the result of partial transfers of people's property rights. In this article, I reject this reading. I argue that (a) for Locke, transfers of property rights were neither necessary nor sufficient for territorial rights and that (b) Locke in fact held a two-part theory of territorial rights. I support this reading by appealing to textual and contextual evidence. I conclude by drawing a lesson from Locke's views for current debates on territorial rights

Epistemology · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Reading (process · Right to property · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought