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• Roman law was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy, but its detailed rules were developed by professional jurists and were highly sophisticated.
• Obligations, like contracts and torts, are conceptualised as rights good between individuals.
• Modern military, policing and bureaucratic power over ordinary citizens’ daily lives pose special problems for accountability that earlier writers such as Locke or Montesquieu could not have foreseen.

Locke argued that our “lives, liberties and estates” are our property because we own our …