“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
But this isn’t just about your right to own physical things. Property rights are ultimately about self-ownership. Our most valuable property is in ourselves – our bodies, our thoughts, our opinions, our labor, and our peaceful actions. “The right of property is...
For many of the founders, property rights were the foundation of all the others. James Madison took things even further, arguing that people not only have a right to property, but also a property in their rights – tying property rights, self ownership and all...
When you deprive people of their property, you deprive them of their liberty. The bottom line is property rights – rooted in self-ownership – are the foundation of liberty. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center...
If we’re ever going to live in an actual “land of the free” – millions of people will have to start focusing their time and energy on rejecting these 5 huge threats to liberty, rather than just worrying about which person or team is going to run the biggest...
For the old revolutionaries, a government that could define its own limits, take property at will – an arbitrary power – was the very definition of a tyranny, reducing the people “to the most abject slavery.” In their view, liberty could only exist in a...