"Property Rights"
Among our unalienable rights is the right to private property. Property is more than just real estate. It is everything we do and have. According to John Locke, "Every man has a property in his own person." The French economist Fredrick Bastiat defined property thus, ""Property, in a broad sense, is the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, [and] to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action."
The very idea of "natural law" and its corollary "natural rights" are at the heart of America's founding. These ideas represent the crowning glory of thousands of years of trial and error known as Western Civilization. They did not spring from a vacuum in the mind of Thomas Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain......
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