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Enfranchising Incompetents: Suretyship and the Joint Authorship of Laws

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2011

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Goodin, Robert
Lau, Joanne

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Proposals to lower the age of voting, to 15 for example, are regularly met with worries that people that age are not sufficiently 'competent'. Notice however that we allow people that age to sign binding legal contracts, provided that those contracts are

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/37077

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10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00490.x

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2037-12-31

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