Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment (New Studies in Social Policy)

by Bernard H . Siegan (Author)

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  2001

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  A study of the genesis of property rights in the United States. It challenges the opinion that the courts did little to protect property rights in the early years of the nation, and finds post-colonial jurisprudence to be rooted in English common law and the writings of its interpreters.