the actual
authority for rule was vested in the people, it can be considered as
legal for the Fair Play community.

(3) "In the members of the community." The members of the Fair Play
community, as previously noted, were not strictly resident within the
geographic confines of the Fair Play territory. Communities, it has been
said, are total ways of life, complexes Of behavior composed of all the
institutions necessary to carry on a complete life, formed into a
working whole.[2] Self-determination, as it is used here, suggests that
the community as a whole participates in the decision-making process.

(4) "Not in any particular class or classes, but in the members of the
community as a whole." Bryce's definition here extends the
interpretation of "the members of the community." Obviously, if any
particular class or classes were vested with the final political
authority, then the people as a whole, that is, the Fair Play community,
would not exercise self-determination.

The concept of self-determination, carried to an economic context,
suggests that the people of the Fair Play community had the right to
determine their own economic institutions. This means that they had the
right to choose their own portion of land, subject, of course, to the
will of the existing community, and to utilize it according to their own
needs and interests. This meant that no undemocratic and feudalistic
practices, such as primogeniture and entail, could exist. Granted that
this is self-determination rather broadly interpreted in an economic
context, the question is whether or not these people had the right to
choose their own plot of ground and work it as they saw fit, unhampered
by any preordained system of discrimination or restriction.

Socially, the idea of self-determination is applied to evaluate the
religious institutions, the class structure, and the value system. The
application concerns, once again, the authority of the people to
determine their own social patterns. It questions whether or not any
Fair Play settler could worship according to the dictates of his own
conscience. It evaluates the class structure to ascertain whether or not
a superimposed caste system ordered the class structure of Fair Play
society, rather than a community-determined system in which choice and
opportunity provided flexibility and mobility. And finally, it considers
whether or not the values of the Fair Play settlers were inculcated by
some internal