The American philosophy of the Rights of Man relied heavily on the indissoluble connection between rationality, property, freedom, and justice. The Founders viewed the right of property as “the guardian of every other right” and reasoned that “to deprive a people of this right is in fact to deprive them of their liberty.” The idea of constitutional government is deceptively simple: the government cannot legitimately infringe upon our rights even if the majority votes to do so.
Impressive.
72 posted on 10/27/2005 9:14:12 PM PDT by GOPJ
(NYT: How many times do you ask for an error to be corrected before the "error" becomes a "lie"?)
The Founders viewed the right of property as “the guardian of every other right” and reasoned that “to deprive a people of this right is in fact to deprive them of their liberty.”
This is where those that accept wealth redistribution as long as the one doing it is socially conservative fall flat.
80 posted on 10/28/2005 12:53:46 PM PDT by JeffAtlanta