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Talk:Private property (view source)
Revision as of 22:33, November 19, 2007
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--[[User:Jetgraphics|Jetgraphics]] 16:43, 19 November 2007 (EST)
--[[User:Jetgraphics|Jetgraphics]] 16:43, 19 November 2007 (EST)
== WHAT IS SOVEREIGNTY? ==
DOMINION - Generally accepted definition of "dominion" is perfect
control in right of ownership. The word implies both title and
possession and appears to require a complete retention of control over
disposition. -Sovereignty; as the
dominion of the seas or over a territory.
- - - Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed., p.486
SOVEREIGN - "...Having undisputed right to make decisions and act
accordingly".
New Webster's Dictionary And Thesaurus, p. 950.
SOVEREIGN - A person, body or state in which independent and supreme
authority is vested...
Black's Law Dictionary Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1395.
SOVEREIGNTY - ...By "Sovereignty", in its largest sense is meant
supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power, the absolute right to govern.
Black's Law Dictionary Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1396.
WHO IS SOVEREIGN?
"Government is not Sovereignty. Government is the machinery or
expedient for expressing the will of the sovereign power."
City of Bisbee v. Cochise County,
78 P. 2d 982, 986, 52 Ariz. 1
"People are supreme, not the state."
Waring v. the Mayor of Savanah, 60 GA at 93.
"The people of the state, as the successors of its former sovereign,
are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the king by
his own prerogative."
Lansing v. Smith, (1829) 4 Wendell 9, (NY)
"At the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people and they
are truly the sovereigns of the country."
Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 440, 463
These citations show that the servant government recognizes that American people are sovereign over government. And sovereignty and property are inseparable. A king without land is merely a traveling prince.
We can infer that for an individual to exercise his sovereign prerogatives, he must absolutely own his domain. That is why it is a common error to presume that joint ownership or any other form of collective ownership fits with "private property".
In fact, any other form of ownership that is NOT absolute nor by an individual is NOT private property.
--[[User:Jetgraphics|Jetgraphics]] 17:33, 19 November 2007 (EST)