Robert Muncy | Property Rights + Rule of Law

Why are property rights and the laws protecting those rights so important? Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier point out in their book Decision in Philadelphia, those men had “an almost religious respect” for property, that “the rights of property were inviolable,” and that the Constitution itself is the embodiment of the rights of property as developed primarily by John Locke in the 17th century. In 2005 a case ruled on by the Supreme Court concerning eminent domain (the right of the government to take private property).A major shift in property rights in 2005Numbers 33:53-54 ESVAnd you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. Deuteronomy 19:14 ESV“You shall not move your neighbors landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. Let us examine our hearts for the place’s covetousness might be creating the place of idolatry. | 07.23.23