Sunday, February 01, 2009

ROMAN for CONGRESS - Redistribution of Wealth

Are you for redistribution of wealth? Like the story of the little red hen?

Do you know that in 1795 the Supreme Court declared:

No man would become a member of a community in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labor and industry. The prservation of property, then, is a primary object of the social compact..... The legislature, therefore, had no authority to make an act divesting one citizen of his freehold and vesting it in another, without a just compensation. It is incinsistent with the principles of reason, justice and moral rectitude; it is incompatible with the comfort, peace and happiness of mankind; it is contrary to the principles of social alliance in every free government; and lastly, IT IS CONTRARY TO THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION. (2 Dall 304, 310[Pa. 1795]; emphasis added)

Page 175 of the 5000 Year Leap.

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