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   Section Two
Right In Already Constituted Civil Society

Part One

Possible Elements Of Injustice In Civil Society Considered As Such

Chapter 1.

Two equalities: JURAL and CONSTITUTIVE

Chapter 2.

The four sources of injustices in the civil body

Chapter 3.

Injustices against real and ideal right by persons holding civil power

Chapter 4.

Injustices in the form of government

Chapter 5.

Injustices in government

Chapter 6.

Injustices in society

 

Article 1.

Slavery

 

Article 2.

The pure right of command

 

Article 3.

Legitimate hard servitude

 

Article 4.

Serfdom among the Romans

 

Article 5.

Military bond-service

 

Article 6.

Mercenary servitude or domestic service

 

Article 7.

Administration

 

Article 8.

Subjection

 

Article 9.

Civil dependence or subjection

Chapter 7.

The principle of free concurrence, applied according to the prescriptions of rational Right, saves civil society from all the injustices listed above

 

Article 1.

Concurrence for citizenship

 

Article 2.

Concurrence for the state of freedom

 

Article 3.

The concurrence of citizens for all social goods and offices

Chapter 8.

The sanction of civil rights

 

Article 1.

The sanction of civil rights is found in two supreme forces

 

Article 2.

Civilisation increases in proportion to the growth of the two supreme forces which sanction civil rights

 

Article 3.

Agreement between the two forces produces the most stable public peace and prosperity

 

Article 4.

A wise civil government never lacks a way to sanction all civil rights

 

Article 5.

The sanction of civil rights when a government fails in its obligations

   

§1.

Principles, taken from individual Right, to be kept foremost in mind in this discussion

   

§2.

Opinions of authors

   

§3.

The inviolability of the sovereign’s person according to socio-rational Right

   

§4.

No one has the right to dethrone an absolute sovereign

   

§5.

No one has the right to profess anarchic teachings or to promote anarchy even indirectly and as a means to a better social state

   

§6.

In unconditional autocratic governments, it is never licit, according to social Right, for the governed to use the right of violent coercion against the monarch

     

A.

The peaceful means with which the governed can sufficiently guarantee their right in the most absolute monarchies

     

B.

Objections

     

C.

Replies

   

§7.

Conditional monarchies

   

§8.

Democracies and aristocracies

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