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Yes it totally avoids the problem, because the hypothetical authority is made up of people, thus granted (some of) the legal rights of persons.



Nonnatural persons aren't granted rights under the law because they're made up of people though. In America they're granted those rights because it makes dealing with them much easier. That's it. That's why it's so confusing which rights are reserved only for natural persons and which apply to all persons.

https://books.google.com/books?id=4K0CWvR2FNEC&pg=RA1-PA284&...

I'm trying to link to the section that starts just barely on the page before "Indeterminacy of the Personhood Designation"




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