 Kant calls this postulate that all objects must be treated as potential property of someone a “permissive law of practical reason” (6:247). It authorizes individuals to act to obtain objects as property, thus declaring a right to particular objects that goes beyond the innate right to freedom. The particular distribution of private property is a result of these particular acts of individuals. This act of an individual does not alone create the property right in those objects because such a one-sided declaration would violate the universality of external right, since if one human being is to have intelligible possession of a particular object, all other human beings must refrain from using that object, and thus one individual is unilaterally limiting the freedom of others. Kant recognizes that any unilateral declaration by one person that an object belongs to that person alone would infringe on the freedom of others. The only way that intelligible possession is possible without violating the principle of right is if there is an agreement that puts all under an obligation to recognize each other’s intelligible possessions. Each person must acknowledge an obligation to refrain from using objects that belong to others. The individual act of declaring a particular object as property is rightful only when it harmonizes with other similar individual acts of other persons regarding other objects. Since no individual will can rightfully make and enforce such a law obligating everyone to respect others’ property, this mutual obligation is possible only in accordance with a “collective general (common) and powerful will”, in other words, only in a civil condition. The state itself obligates all citizens to respect the property of other citizens. The state functions as an objective, disinterested institution that resolves disputes about individual property and enforces compliance with those determinations. Without a state to enforce these property rights, they are impossible.