Most Americans tend to think of private property simply as a home – the place where the family resides, stores their belongings, and finds shelter and safety from the elements. It’s where you live. It’s yours because you pay the mortgage and the taxes. Most people don’t give property ownership much more thought than that.
There was a time when property ownership was considered to be much more. Property, and the ability to own and control it, was life itself.
The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not granted by any man or documents. Neither can they remove them because of inalienable under natural law. Mr John Adams was right to admit that our society starts or ends with a civil and moral populace that we currently lack.
ReplyDeleteWe're too civil and not moral enough.
DeleteIt is never too late to alter that equation, no Sir.
DeleteThe wellsprings of rot are the forced schooling of children, the debasement of the currency, and the inaction of the guards of freedom and justice.
ReplyDeleteIt's long past time to abolish all property taxes.
ReplyDeleteHear Hear!!! You know it.
DeleteAbsolutely! Step #1.
DeleteWith your own land and your Rifle well, you are A Man. And thats the first thing, your Rifle, before anything it is your property no more no less than your land.
Imagine outlawing your land.
Not.
Over my dead body with my Rifle empty in my hands.
Jefferson's original wording in the Declaration of Independence was "Life, liberty, and property," much more in line with Locke. Concerns about how that might later be used by the slave states to sustain human chattel led to "pursuit of happiness" being substituted for property.
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