This text chronicles the close relationship between property rights and the Constitution from the Colonial era to current controversies over land use controls. It devotes special attention to the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and economic change in shaping constitutional thought, examining such topics as the link between private property and political liberty, and the extent to which government may interfere with private contractual arrangements regarding the use of property. The first comprehensive treatment of ...
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This text chronicles the close relationship between property rights and the Constitution from the Colonial era to current controversies over land use controls. It devotes special attention to the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and economic change in shaping constitutional thought, examining such topics as the link between private property and political liberty, and the extent to which government may interfere with private contractual arrangements regarding the use of property. The first comprehensive treatment of economic rights, this is an invaluable resource for courses in constitutional and legal history, American government, the judicial process, property law, and economic regulation.
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Add this copy of The Guardian of Every Other Right: a Constitutional to cart. $11.98, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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I got this book because of the recent flap about imminent domain. I had the mistaken impression that the taking of private property and giving it to other private parties was a recent development. This book cleared that up very nicely. The Federal and State governments have been taking private property and giving it to other private citizens since the Republic began. An example of an early taking that was labeled as "public use" was the allowing of grain mills to build dams for power and flood your land without any reimbursement, for the good of the community. Voltaire wrote, in Candide, "private misfortunes are public benefits, so that the more private misfortunes there are the greater is the general good." Governments stealing from there citizens for "the general good" is nothing new.
