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The Rights Nobody Has to Earn

By dhilipsiva. The epigraph, the opening note, every chapter and Part opening case, the unnumbered optional method, and a map, glossary and index. The manuscript is the source of every reader page.

  1. Epigraph
  2. A Note Before the Design

  3. Part I — Who counts, and what they are owed

    The Sports Field at Wallacedene
  4. 1. The Child With Nobody
  5. 2. What the Record May Say
  6. 3. What You Are Owed
  7. 4. Whether It Arrived
  8. 5. When There Is Genuinely Not Enough
  9. 6. Who Owes, and What Follows

  10. Part II — The life the design leaves alone

    Unprecedented Injustice
  11. 7. An Ordinary Week
  12. 8. What Nobody Has to Ask Permission For
  13. 9. Work, Pay and Contribution
  14. 10. What Money Cannot Buy
  15. 11. The Same Route for Everyone
  16. 12. A Place in Which Life Remains Possible
  17. 13. Creatures Without a Ballot
  18. 14. Holding a Role in Somebody's Life
  19. 15. Arriving and Belonging

  20. Part III — The public power that serves it

    The Brooding Spirit of the Law
  21. 16. Answerability and Authority
  22. 17. How Public Power Is Built
  23. 18. The Vote Conviction Does Not Take
  24. 19. What May Be Kept About You
  25. 20. A Crisis Does Not Suspend the Republic
  26. 21. A Way to Be Heard
  27. 22. Changing the Rules

  28. Part IV — What the design does to a person, and how it catches itself

    Three to Ten Years
  29. 23. The Shield
  30. 24. Findings About People
  31. 25. A Prisoner Is a Person
  32. 26. Where People Are Put
  33. 27. The One Thing Taken
  34. 28. When the System Notices It Broke

  35. Part V — The argument

    After the Judgment
  36. 29. The Five Joints
  37. 30. Where This Could Fail
  38. The Method
  39. Works Cited
  40. Map, Glossary and Index
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