Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 04 - 01/01/04 to 02/10/06

The court and Property

Recently the Supreme court decided it was constitutional to take private property and give it to another private entity for the good of the people since it could result in higher taxes going to the city or state.
Here is what Thomas Jefferson had to say in the matter. I think it is time armed citizens defened their neighbotrs against attack by socialist/crooked city councilment and their cronies who take property without proper payment for malls and sports enterprises.

"By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another by force or fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice." --Thomas Jefferson: Batture at New Orleans, 1812. ME 18:104

"Charged with the care of the general interest of the nation, and among these with the preservation of their lands from intrusion, I exercised, on their behalf, a right given by nature to all men, individual or associated, that of rescuing their own property wrongfully taken." --Thomas Jefferson to W. C. C. Claiborne, 1810. ME 12:383

"Nothing is ours, which another may deprive us of." --Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 1786. ME 5:440

"[If government have] a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, [this would leave] us without anything we can call property." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers 1:233

"The first foundations of the social compact would be broken up were we definitely to refuse to its members the protection of their persons and property while in their lawful pursuits." --Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 1812. ME 13:145

"Persons and property make the sum of the objects of government." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:459, Papers 15:396

"The right to sell is one of the rights of property." --Thomas Jefferson to Handsome Lake, 1802. ME 16:395

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