Social contract & rights
Laws are social contracts serving welfare and rights; can be changed democratically.
How it sounds
A law that violates basic rights should be changed through democratic means.
Signs in writing
- individual rights
- greatest good
- laws as agreements
- due process
Values
rights · welfare
Fears
tyranny
Staying healthy at this stage
- fair democratic processes
Growth edge
- ground rights in universal principles of dignity
How to be heard at this stage
- argue from rights and welfare
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Achiever Cook-Greuter
- Conscientious Loevinger
- Formal Commons
- Individuative-Reflective Fowler
- Self-authoring mind Kegan
- Achiever Torbert
- Achievement / Strategic Spiral Dynamics
- Orange Wilber
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