This mongraph reasserts the primacy of property in
political theorising. Arguing that the determination
of property rights is part of the justification of
the state, MacDonald notes the failure of much
current philosophising to take account of this role
when setting out the normative arguments for
legitimate political authority. MacDonald criticises
current philosophical definitions of property as a
bundle-of-rights, arguing that for normative
purposes, property is a right of exclusion in rem.
Thereby MacDonald escapes the interminable moral and
legal arguments over property - such as...