Re: Overheard on the scanner

In article <ddfr-929425.18305008052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <9v17245b0ettf1j4p90pnrl596n0t543gg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> 1. What is your view of the origin of rights to property in
>>> land? How did you get the right to exclude trespassers?
>>
>> By laying down the money for a specified plot and assuming legal
>> responsibility for it.
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> How did the person you bought the land from get that right, in
> order that he could transfer it to you? How about the person he
> bought it from? Repeat as necessary.

"Get off this estate."
   "What for?"
"Because it's mine."
   "Where'd you get it?"
"From my father"
   "Where'd he get it?"
"From his father."
   "And where did he get it?"
"He fought for it."
   "Well, I'll fight you for it."

    -- from stanza 37 of Carl Sandburg's
       free-verse poem "The People, Yes" (1936)

-- 
William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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