[Texaggie79]

KEWL!! Never seen that one. Gotta cut and paste that baby to my favs.

[tpaine]

"It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance.
By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it.
Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society." --Thomas Jefferson
533 Roscoe


KEWL!! Never seen that one. Gotta cut and paste that baby to my favs.
-aggie-

Don't get too excited, - in context, -- TJ was musing to his correspondent about how some indian tribes viewed real property. -

This out of context snippet just happens to ~appear~ to agree with your communitarian beliefs. -- Jefferson was no commie.

[Roscoe]

KEWL!! Never seen that one.

Jefferson, like all of the Founding Fathers, knew that law is the foundation of our rights as Americans. The juvenile mentalities on the thread can't comprehend that.