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Imagine a society with no property rights: No law or officer of the law would prohibit you or punish you for taking whatever you want from whomever you want. Such a society would be chaotic, hostile, and poor.
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Private Property: The Indispensable Key to Political Freedom, Social Cooperation, and Economic Progress
The Founding Fathers believed that the sole legitimate function of the federal government was to defend, uphold, and enforce our natural rights to life, liberty, and property. Donna Kirby/pixabay.com
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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