Coerced Consent and Third Parties

According to the Asymmetry Thesis, the conditions (whatever they are) that suffice to make coerced consent invalid vis-à-vis the coercer do not also suffice to make that consent invalid vis-à-vis innocent third parties. In this paper, I argue against the Asymmetry Thesis. I develop an argument – which I call the Scope of Subordination Argument – which shows that the Asymmetry Thesis is incorrect, and which offers, along the way, a new understanding of the relationship between the nature of claim-rights and valid consent.