...This chapter looks at a linear model created by Frederick Jackson Turner that created a common conception of the American frontier as the meeting point between savagery and civilization. However, this model creates a false dichotomy, oversimplifying the experiences of Americans who participated...

... members who share a common conception of justice. The first criterion directly follows from the justification for territorial political power. Any group with a claim to significant political power (as comes with claims to territorial rights) must demonstrate the minimal capacity to establish institutions...

...This chapter analyzes how the constituent dimensions of property are used to construct particular conceptions of property found in law. Through this process, two dominant conceptions of property emerge: the ‘common’ conception, in which property functions to protect the individual against...

... of communicative interactions rather than counting as the entry into an agreement of sorts. This chapter also discusses the communicative dispensability of common conceptions and the presumption of communicative intent. Lehrer Keith Wagner Carl Anaximander Husserl Edmund Davidson Donald Galen Leibniz G W...