Boundaries of Authority

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“Although liberal theorists differ on whether Indigenous land theft has been superseded, they all insist that claims to ' huge amounts of land ' are unjustified due to present fairness constraints (Simmons, 2016: 131; see also Luoma and Moore, 2024; Moore, 2015: 141; 2016: 458; Stilz 2019a: 78 -84; 2019b.).”

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“Instead, he adopts a broader conception of use that relates to the significance of a place to an individual ' s life plans: we gain property rights by incorporating things into the ' legitimate purposive activities ' that give our lives meaning (2016: 181).”

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“Simmons accepts the general Lockean formulation that we gain property rights over land through use but rejects Locke ' s narrow conception of use as improvement through settled agrarian labour.”

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“Territory theorists wish to retain the ' power and plausibility ' of these concepts in explaining why individuals and groups have rights over particular places, while rejecting the ' practical use to which [these theories] were put ' : denying Indigenous people had political communities and territorial rights at the time of European contact (Simmons, 2016: 121).”

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“Another goal of the territorial rehabilitation project is to refute the racist and colonial conceptions of pre-institutional rights in the works of classical theorists like Locke, Kant, and Grotius used to historically justify the seizure of Indigenous lands.”

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“Property rights, he argues, are only justified so long as ' we leave a fair share of the world for others to use or appropriate ' and can therefore change ' as the size of a ' fair share ' itself changes ' (119).”

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“Simmons claims that this conception of property can ' make good moral sense of the particularity ' of Indigenous territorial claims without depriving settlers of their fair share (182, n61).”