Principles and Property Rights

Both history and the contemporary world provide us with countless examples illustrating the importance of property rights to individual flourishing. From Plymouth Colony to Pyongyang, from Venezuela to China, when property rights are respected and protected, individuals prosper and thrive. When property rights are violated, misery and suffering is the inevitable result.

Why is this true across history and across the globe? Why are property rights universally good?

The right to property protects our freedom to attain and use the values that sustain and enhance our lives. Property rights enable us to create, use, and trade the things that make our lives better.

Unfortunately, property rights have been under attack in America for more than a century. Those attacks take many forms. But they are united by common principles.

Principles and Property Rights examines the source and meaning of the right to property, the principles that underlie attacks on property rights, and practical advice about protecting one of our most cherished freedoms.

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