 There are two justifications for the state: one is functional, since the creation of political authority is necessary to solve the deficiencies of the state of nature at least as regards the protection of people’s natural rights; and the other is consent, as people in the state of nature are imagined to agree to a political order, an act which reconciles man’s natural liberty with subjection to common authority. The natural right to property, on this argument, is conceived of as prior to the state, and an essential building block for justifying the domain of state jurisdiction. By linking people and land together prior to the creation of political authority, Locke’s theory can explain the domain of jurisdictional authority. The boundaries of the state are coextensive with the boundaries of property that individual property holders incorporated when political society was created.