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it makes no difference what 18th century property holders thought about property in 2008 beyond the reflection of their views written into the constitution. outside the legal framework put into motion by the constitution, there are no private property relations. those which preceded were made possible by other legal orders. there is no private property outside a legal system. the legal system is an extension of the larger political order. political contestation of the order itself is not limited by the relations which are shaped by actions within that order. sorry.
private property is not a "natural" relation--the state of nature is and was and will always be a fiction.
so no, i don't see private property relations as limiting political action.
and it is of no consequence to me in this regard what the framers of the constitution thought about it. and besides, even if it was, i am not privy to the types of seances that you perhaps are, the ones that let the Authorized Psychic conjure up the Founding Dudes in order to ask them how 2008 reality should be interpreted in light of their 18th century views.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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