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This book is a detailed discussion of David Hume's views on justice as put forth in Book III, Part II of A Treatise of Human Nature and in parts of An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Harrison focuses on Hume's belief that justice, property, promising, government, national and international law, marriage, and perhaps even morality itself are entirely matters of changeable human conventions, and considers Hume's account of why we have a duty to obey these conventions.