Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Understanding our founding fathers

From foundingfatherquotes on Tumblr

Property is the creature of civil society, and subject, in all respects, to the disposition and controul of civil institutions. …. It must be repeated, that the law of property, in its origin and operation, is the offspring of the social state; not the incident of a state of nature.

John Marshall, Argument in Ware v. Hilton, February 9, 1796

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