 There are many internal disputes amongst contemporary Lockean-inspired theorists concerning the appropriate understanding of Locke’s argument and the extent to which Locke is vulnerable to some of the standard objections. An objection was raised earlier that might be called the Swiss cheese objection: it seems unlikely that a consent argument can justify the contiguous territorial control that we might expect of a state. Some Lockean theorists, such as Hillel Steiner (1996: 144), are happy enough to accept this as an implication of a Lockean theory, but deny that it is a problem, or anyway not a fatal problem. A. John Simmons, however, has argued that the functional strand in Locke’s theory does important work, so that, 