bripat9643
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- Apr 1, 2011
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Property rights are subject to the duly enacted laws of any society.
In the USA we are supposed to be a nation of laws.
We as the state can take away a man's freedom if laws are violated. We can take away a man's property if we use the laws enacted by society. Our laws say we can do this in the context of due process and just compensation. No whacky notion of 'natural law' trumps what a society itself chooses to do.
A society that uses laws to take away property is little more than a gang of savages who may dress in three piece suits but who still practice cannibalism.