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"Property" per James Madison

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[font="Georgia, serif"]This term in its particular application means “that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.” [/font]

[font="Georgia, serif"]In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage. In the former sense, a man's land, or merchandize, or money is called his property*. [/font]

[font="Georgia, serif"]In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. [/font]

[font="Georgia, serif"]He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. [/font]

[font="Georgia, serif"]He has a property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his person. [/font]



http://gunshowonthenet.com/AfterTheFact/MadisonProperty03291792.html
 
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Benjamin Franklin, Queries and Remarks:

the important ends of Civil Society, and the personal Securities of Life and Liberty, these remain the same in every Member of the society; and the poorest continues to have an equal Claim to them with the most opulent, whatever Difference Time, Chance, or Industry may occasion in their Circumstances.
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http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/Precedent/FranklinPennConst.html

"...All property, indeed, except the savage's temporary cabin, his bow, his match coat, and other little acquisitions absolutely necessary for his subsistence, seems to me the creature of public convention. Hence the public has the right of regulating descents and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and uses of it. All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may, therefore, by other laws, dispose of it whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages. He can have no right to the benefits of society who will not pay his club towards the support of it...."
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