Freedom of Property
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freedom of property · civil liberty · pecuniary fanaticism · rights of property · the freedom of property
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The central thesis of the passage: that individual wealth and property must be free from absolute governmental power, exactly as religion was freed from governmental control, in order to secure civil liberty.
freedom of property must be the only means also, for the establishment of civil liberty.
Freedom of property will beget civil liberty, as freedom of conscience has begotten religious.
and their complete success in the establishment of religious freedom, ought not to render the freedom of property hopeless, especially when it is considered, that if the latter is impracticable, the former, in time, will become abortive.