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.
The question to be considered is, whether our revolution was designed to establish the freedom both of religion and property, or only of the former.