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This paper addresses the following questions: what is Fichteâs first principle of right, how does he argue for it, and how does it function as the first principle of his substantive political theory? To answer these questions, the paper offers an overview of the main steps of Fichteâs derivation of the principle of right, explains its relationship to Fichteâs account of individual personhood, and then specifies some of the senses in which the resulting principle serves as the foundation of the rest of Fichteâs political and economic theory. I focus on the developmental logic of Fichteâs account of the âsummonsâ and the ârelation of right.â This developmental logic, I argue, is both recapitulated and completed within Fichteâs political theory and political economy.