James Madison says people have a right to what they own here in the U.S. and that authorities who work for their Government Institution are to protect the persons rights to their own things not rob them of it, so taking those farmers land is against the Constitutional Law and any one involved in the seizing is a criminal because they broke the Law for Authorities. Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own. -= Essay on Property, March 29, 1792 =- It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated. -= Speech at the Virginia Convention, December 2, 1829 =- James Madison Founding Father- one of the inventors of the Constitutional Law and Government Institution. and a warning from James Madison that if you allow people of authority who work for the Government Institution to gain more power than what the Constitutional Law allows them to have, then no one in the public is safe- Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. -= essay in the National Gazette, March 27, 1792 =-
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