No, property rights come from our God given right to KEEP what we EARN!
It's why life liberty and property are NOT in the Constitution, which is a POSITIVE law contract, but in the Declaration of Independence!
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Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,-'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;' and to 'secure,' not grant or create, these rights, governments are instituted. That property which a man has honestly acquired he retains full control of, subject to these limitations:
First, that he shall not use it to his neighbor's injury, and that does not mean that he must use it for his neighbor's benefit;
second, that if the devotes it to a public use, he gives to the public a right to control that use;
and third, that whenever the public needs require, the public may take it upon payment of due compensation.
BUDD v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF NEW YORK, 143 U.S. 517 (1892) _________________________________________________________________
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
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Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1791
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Property rights are also implicit in the 8th Commandment. It is interesting that they said pursuit of happiness rather than right to own property. They nearly did say that.
When it comes to crap like this have you ever wondered how a city gov't. that's essentially a corporate legal fiction can somehow gain control over living souls? How have we come to a point where agents for these corps. can run roughshod over it's citizens....whether it's code enforcers, econ.development, tax appraisers, etc. what gives them the right to enter the private affairs of citizens?