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Do territorial rights include the right to exclude?

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  • Cara Nine

    (University College Cork, Ireland)

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Do territorial rights include the right to exclude? This claim is often assumed to be true in territorial rights theory. And if this claim is justified, a state may have a prima facie right to unilaterally exclude aliens from state territory. But is this claim justifiable? I examine the version of territorial rights that has the most compelling story to support the right to exclude: territorial rights as a kind of property right, where ‘territory’ refers to the public and common spaces included in the domain of state jurisdiction. I analyse the work of A. J. Simmons, who develops the political theory of John Locke into one of the most well-articulated and defended theories of territorial rights as a kind of property right. My main argument is that Simmons’ justification for rights of exclusion, which are derived from individual rights of self-government, does not apply to many kinds of public spaces. An upshot of this analysis is that most Lockean-based theories of territorial rights will have a hard time justifying the right to exclude as a prima facie right held by states against aliens.

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  • Cara Nine, 2019. "Do territorial rights include the right to exclude?," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 18(4), pages 307-322, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pophec:v:18:y:2019:i:4:p:307-322
    DOI: 10.1177/1470594X18788345
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    1. David Miller, 2012. "Territorial Rights: Concept and Justification," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 60(2), pages 252-268, June.
    2. Cara Nine, 2008. "A Lockean Theory of Territory," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 56(1), pages 148-165, March.
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    6. Hillel Steiner, 2008. "May Lockean Doughnuts Have Holes? The Geometry of Territorial Jurisdiction: A Response to Nine," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 56(4), pages 949-956, December.
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