caa a22 4500 386379696 CHVBK 20180307112036.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010969 doi S0008423900010969 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010969 Flanagan Thomas University of Calgary The Agricultural Argument and Original Appropriation: Indian Lands and Political Philosophy [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas Flanagan] The European appropriation of Indian land in North America has often been justified through versions of the "agricultural argument” to the effect that the Indians did not need the land and did not really own it because they did not permanently enclose and farm it. Thus the European settlers could resort to original appropriation as described in Locke's Second Treatise. This article examines the agricultural argument as exemplified in the writings of John Winthrop, John Locke and Emer de Vattel. Analysis shows that the argument is formally consistent with the premises of natural rights philosophy because it assumes the equal right of both Indians and Europeans to engage in original appropriation. But the historical record shows that the argument actually applied to only a small portion of the land acquired by the Europeans. Sovereignty is the issue that should receive further inquiry. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1989 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 589-602 0008-4239 22:3<589 1989 22 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010969 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010969 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Flanagan Thomas University of Calgary NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 589-602 0008-4239 22:3<589 1989 22 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge