First Principles Series Report posted October 19, 2007 by Edward J Erler, Ph.D.
The Decline and Fall of the Right to Property: Government as Universal Landlord
"[T]he right of acquiring and possessing property and having it
protected, is one of the natural inherent and unalienable rights of
man."[1]
A few years ago, one noted political reformer applauded the
"demise of property as a formal constitutional limit." A new view
of the right to property had, in this author's opinion, begun to
replace the old constitutional…