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Two Conceptions Of Justice And The Dystopia Of Global Justice, Horacio Spector
Two Conceptions Of Justice And The Dystopia Of Global Justice, Horacio Spector
San Diego Law Review
Political associations raise special questions of justice. Some authors contend that those special questions derive from characteristic features of the modern state. For instance, Thomas Nagel argues that two defining features of the political community justify associative redistributive duties that hold among its members but not among members and nonmembers. Those features are the fact that the political community exercises sovereign power over its members by resorting to the imposition of coercive rules and the fact that it exercises that power in the name of its members. In this paper, I will not challenge this assertion but will nonetheless argue …