Defending the Right to a Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defending the Right to a Home write by Beth Ellen Harris. This book was released on 2004. Defending the Right to a Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the influence of legal professionals on the dynamics of state policy making, this work looks at the responses of poverty lawyers to attempts by US Congress and state legislatures to dismantle social welfare programmes and to straitjacket law reform activities in the 1980s and 1990s.
Supreme Neglect
Supreme Neglect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supreme Neglect write by Richard A. Epstein. This book was released on 2008-03-12. Supreme Neglect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As far back as the Magna Carta in 1215, the right of private property was seen as a bulwark of the individual against the arbitrary power of the state. Indeed, common-law tradition holds that "property is the guardian of every other right." And yet, for most of the last seventy years, property rights had few staunch supporters in America. This latest addition to Oxford's Inalienable Rights series provides a succinct, pointed look at property rights in America--how they came to be, how they have evolved, and why they should once again be a mainstay of the law. Richard A. Epstein, the nation's preeminent authority on the subject, examines all aspects of private property--from real estate to air rights to intellectual property. He takes the reader from the strongly protective property rights advocated by the framers of the Constitution through to the weak property rights supported by Progressive and liberal politicians of the twentieth century and finally to our own time, which has seen a renewed appreciation of property rights in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's landmark Kelo v. New London decision in 2005. The author's own powerful defense of property rights threads through the narrative. Using both political theory and economic analysis, Epstein argues that above all that private property is a sound social institution, and not just an excuse for selfishness and greed. Only a system of private property lets people form and raise families, organize religious and other charitable organizations, and earn a living through honest labor. Supreme Neglect offers a compact, incisive look at this hotly contested constitutional right, championing property rights as an essential social institution.
Property Rights and Eminent Domain
Property Rights and Eminent Domain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Property Rights and Eminent Domain write by Ellen Frankel Paul. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Property Rights and Eminent Domain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a country built on the institution of private property, property-owner rights have been under attack. By arguing that private property is a fundamental liberty whose protection deserves the highest priority, Ellen Frankel Paul challenges one of the dominant trends of the past half century: the erosion of property rights via zoning and land use restrictions, carried on by government exercising its "police power" or promoting "the public interest." Paul begins by examining the arguments of environmentalists in support of land-use legislation, and explores a few particularly troubling examples of the exercise of eminent domain and police powers. She traces the philosophical arguments for the two powers as well as their tortuous judicial history, the meaning of property rights and investigates how previous thinkers have defended these rights is detailed, and Paul suggests a more adequate defense for them. In the concluding portion of the book, the very legitimacy of eminent domain is questioned and the author offers recommendations for its reform. This analysis is wide in scope and makes creative use of historical, legal, economic, and philosophic methodologies. It not only gives an account of the present power regulations on land, but also provides an exhaustive history of the development of the law in these two areas and of the philosophical ideas of the thinkers who helped shape this process. This book is distinctive because it places a theory of the just acquisition of property at the heart of the answer to the question of the extent to which governments can rightfully exercise the powers of eminent domain and police. "Amazingly, in a country built on the institution of private property, the right to property in land has been under increasing assault, and has seldom been defended. Paul's book--by arguing that private property is a fundamental liberty whose protection deserves the highest priority--is a major step toward filling the void."--Robert Hessen, Stanford University
In Defense of Property
In Defense of Property - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Property write by Gottfried Dietze. This book was released on 1995. In Defense of Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Defense of Property focuses on the importance of private property and its protection throughout history. Emphasizing the connection between property and propriety, Gottfried Dietze shows how the universal appreciation of property functions as an ethical institution, securing happiness under law and order.
Cornerstone of Liberty
Cornerstone of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cornerstone of Liberty write by Timothy Sandefur. This book was released on 2006. Cornerstone of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Real-life stories and solid legal analysis combine to show why property rights are the "cornerstone of liberty," how they are protected in the U.S. Constitution, and how the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London case has impacted them.
