[inquest]

This is all a very nice sentiment, but it needs to be subjected to some scrutiny? Did the founding generation view property rights as "absolute"? Only in a fairy-tale version of history. There was still such a thing as eminent domain, there were still regulations of various sorts as to the types of businesses that people could operate on their property, and under what conditions, and in fact, many old colonial towns, especially in New England, had rules regarding whom you could and could not put up in your own home (in order to keep undesirables from moving into town). I want to believe in something absolute, too, but we have to face reality.

[inquest]

I don't know where that first question mark came from, after "scrutiny". The liberal conspiracy must have put it in there. It should have been a period?

[thinktwice]

we have to face reality.

Some absolute realitys are...

A. Individual freedom is a human right.
B. Owning property is a human right.
C. Taxation or confiscation of property is theft if said action is taken by governmental systems that violate human rights.