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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!ncar!vexcel!dean
- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Property is *never* "unalienable"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.172155.1025@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <88290203@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <C18IuC.8Lr@world.std.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:21:55 GMT
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- In article <C18IuC.8Lr@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
- >The Constitutional right to persue hapiness is
- >precisely the right to own property. In fact the was Jefferson's original
- >phrasing in his list of inalienable rights in an early draft of the Declar-
- >ation of Independence.
- >
- But then it was Jefferson who changed "Life, liberty and property" (a popular
- phrase of the day) to "Life, liverty and the pursuit of happiness."
- Jerfferson was anything but a hardcore property rights supporter.
- He was of the opinion that private property is the creation of the state
- and subject to its desires and needs. His focus was on land an he
- felt that for a wealthy mans land to lie fallow while a poor farmer
- had no land was a violation of human rights. Don't Libertarians refer
- to such ideas as socialism?
-
- >
- >Conan the Libertarian
- >
- >--
- >"If you can't love the Constitution, then at least hate the Government"
- >
-
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