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A subcommittee will be formed of the members of the Preliminary Committee to prepare a draft of the statutes of the Council of the League and to examine the political questions which may be the object of agreement among Arab States.
A moral code that could be the object of agreement among such individuals is thus a publicly justified morality.
Another way to avoid ambiguity is the determination of the object of agreement is to follow Buchanan and, arguably, Gauthier in developing a two-stage contract theory.
For Rawls, as for most contemporary contract theorists, the object of agreement is not, at least directly, the grounds of political obligation, but the principles of justice that regulate the basic institutions of society.
There is a reading of the (first-order) hypothetical question "Would the arrangements be the object of agreement if___" which, as indicated, is still resolutely empirical in some sense.
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Although these two are often bound up together in contemporary contract theory, one of Buchanan's novel contributions is to suggest that there are theoretical gains to separating these distinct objects of agreement.
The question for most contemporary contract theorists, then, is, roughly:"If we surveyed the idealized surrogates of the actual citizens in this polity, what social arrangements would be the object of an agreement among them?" Famously, Ronald Dworkin has objected that a (doubly) hypothetical agreement cannot bind any actual person.
The fact that the two criteria are alternatives means that it is appropriate, first and foremost, to determine whether just one of them is satisfied, here the criterion concerning the object of the agreement.
136 In order to assess whether the object of an agreement is anti-competitive, regard must be had inter alia to the content of its provisions, the objectives it seeks to attain and the economic and legal context of which it forms a part (see, to this effect, GlaxoSmithKline Services and Others v Commission and Others, paragraph 58 and the case-law cited).
The question, rather, is "Would these arrangements be the object of an agreement if citizens were surveyed?" Although both of the questions are, in some sense, susceptible to an empirical reading, only the latter is in play in present-day theorizing.
Community Forest is defined as "that part of non-permanent forest estate (not more than 5000ha) that is the object of an agreement between government and a community in which communities undertake sustainable forest management for a period of 25 years renewable" (MINEF 1998).
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