 A puzzle arises here with regard to property. If individuals are not able to have any intelligible property prior to the existence of a state, yet the state’s role is to enforce property rights, where does the original assignment of property to individuals occur? John Locke had famously avoided this problem in his theory of property by making property a product of a single individual’s activity. By “mixing” one’s labor with an object in the commons, one comes to have property in the object. Kant objects to Locke’s theory of property on the grounds that it makes property a relation between a person and a thing rather than between the wills of several persons (6:268–69). Since property is a relation of wills that can occur only in a civil condition under a common sovereign power, Kant suggests that prior to this civil condition property can be acquired only in anticipation of and in conformity with a civil condition. Provisional property is initial physical appropriation of objects with the intention of making them rightful property in a state (6:264, 267).