The right to own private property that cannot be arbitrarily regulated or confiscated by the government is the moral and constitutional basis for individual freedom.
~~Dr. Dan Eichenbaum
To our founders, the totality of your private property consisted of your land and home, your possessions, the work of your hands, the ideas of your mind, and your life itself. This fundamental belief was in direct conflict with the centuries-old concept that land, and usually its inhabitants, were the rightful property of the monarch or tyrant who controlled the territory. People in the king’s empire were called “subjects” not citizens and paid high taxes in return for land rental and protection. They were subject to the arbitrary rules fabricated by the monarch based on the king’s whims and were most assuredly not free.
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