This paper is about the link between due process and politicaltheory, and more specifically, about the link between a particular sortof due process issue and political theory. The goal is to add to theagenda an important legal issue that has not captured its fair shareof philosophical attention. As this symposium demonstrates, proceduraldue process analysis has benefited greatly from the attentionof legal philosophers. Its foundations are far clearer and more interestingthan they would be if left to straight doctrinal analysis. The timehas come for legal philosophers, and philosophically inclined lawyers,to shine some comparable light on the foundations of jurisdiction
