Re: Markets Only...What a Concept!

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From: Michael Smith
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:15

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>In article <C13Jx6.F6H@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
>>Why?  Because you don't believe that property rights are unalienable?  ...

What are they teaching in high-school civics these days? It's precisely 
property, and one's rights in it, that *are* "alienable". I don't know 
what scriptural text Brian is thinking of here, but of course the most 
famous context in which a list of inalienable (not, I believe, 
"unalienable") rights is enumerated is the Declaration of Independence, 
which has for Americans some moral authority though, of course, no legal 
force; in that list property is conspicuous by its absence, and if 
Jefferson's testimony is to be believed, designedly so. 

--Michael Smith

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