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[[Image:Supreme Court.jpg|thumb|200px|US Supreme Court Building]]
[[Image:Supreme Court.jpg|thumb|200px|US Supreme Court Building]]
'''''Flemming v. Nestor''''', 404 U.S. 78, 92 S. Ct. 254 (1971), is a [[Supreme Court]] decision ruling that there is no contractual right to money paid into [[Social Security]] because it is not property.<ref>[https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/is-there-right-social-security Is There a Right to Social Security?]</ref>
'''''Flemming v. Nestor''''', 404 U.S. 78, 92 S. Ct. 254 (1971), is a [[Supreme Court]] decision ruling that there is no contractual right to money paid into [[Social Security]] because it is not property.<ref>[https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/is-there-right-social-security Is There a Right to Social Security?]</ref>
The government argued that:
<blockquote>Social security must be viewed as a welfare instrument to which legal concepts of 'insurance,' 'property,' 'vested rights,' 'annuities,' etc., can be applied only at the risk of a serious distortion of language.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MMNGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA638 Congressional Record]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tydp8mFpVl8C&pg=SL1-PA2654 President's Proposals for Revision in the Social Security System: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5710, Parts 1-4], 1967</ref><ref>Appellant's Brief, p. 68</ref></blockquote>
==Ruling==
==Ruling==