“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.” Calvin Coolidge
In the United States, we tend to study the Constitution to secure and understand our freedoms. This is a bit strange as our freedom throughout history has been secured mainly by property rights. This was understood by the founders and many others.
There is a “diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate…. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”[1] James Madison’s Federalist p.10
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” John Locke
“No other rights are safe where property is not safe.” Daniel Webster
“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.” Calvin Coolidge