Sentence examples for coercive state action from inspiring English sources

In the liberal tradition, the moral legitimacy of (usually coercive) state action is generally predicated on its broadly democratic origin.

As Presley and Kinsky explain, on the cultural libertarian view, to try to remedy the noncoercive oppression of women with coercive state action "just changes the sort of oppression, not the fact" (Presley and Kinsky 1991, 78).

It is sometimes claimed that all state action is coercive.

On this view, the scope of public reason extends to almost all state action and activity, since the state's actions are backed by coercive power, but it will also extend to include the non-political use of coercion by private actors.

This eventually brought about the "coming of the Leviathan" or the coercive state.

"Noncoercive state perfectionism" would then be equivalent to indirectly coercive state perfectionism.

It holds that coercive state power is justified only to the extent necessary to protect the right to freedom from coercive interference.

In short, the society enacts coercive state policies that favor the young over the old.

State action counts, the report says.

First, state coercion is presumptively wrong; each and every coercive state enactment must be justified by each and every citizen subject to it.

In the absence of a functioning coercive state that specifies who is entitled to what property, no one has determinate rights; there is no clear "mine" and "thine".