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Independence and the Right to Private Property

AliveInHim Wrote: Jul 05, 2010 1:08 PM

Property rights and the right to the fruit of one's labor (one and the same, really) are all of a piece with Biblical teaching on the matter: that each man owns not only himself but those things he produces, the theft of which was punishable by a like loss to the thief, up to and including his life. Leftists, though, deny God and honestly believe they're better equipped to manage our lives and our property than we are. God would have us be free, for He is no dictator except as concerns theft of any kind (Thou Shalt Not...), but leftists prefer slavery. They refuse to see that there is more than one way to enslave a man than to literally chain him.

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Independence and the Right to Private Property

The right to private property was one of the central issues involved in the American Revolution. The colonists’ cries of “taxation without representation” were but protests of what they saw as an unjust taking of private property.

The Declaration of Independence charges the King of England with engaging in 10 acts of abuse, of which half are offenses against private property. Most significantly, the Declaration lists the pursuit of happiness as one of man’s primary inalienable rights. The founders believed that liberty, happiness, and property were inextricably tied together.

Over the years, the American occupation with private property...

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