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Topic: Right to own property

	Universal Declaration of Human Rights
		(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
		Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
		Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
	www.un.org /Overview/rights.html (1587 words)

	Property - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A right of ownership is associated with property that establishes the good as being "one's own thing" in relation to other individuals or groups, assuring the owner the right to dispense with the property in a manner he or she sees fit.
		Property rights are protected in the current laws of States usually found in the form of a Constitution or a Bill of Rights.
		Through property rights, Blackstone thought, which is why he emphasized that indemnification must be awarded a nonconsenting owner whose property is taken by eminent domain, and that a property owner is protected against physical invasion of his property by the laws of trespass and nuisance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Property_(ownership_right) (4339 words)

	Property Rights
		Far from property rights not being "a fundamental part of Canadian society," they are in fact so integral, so accepted, so culturally engrained, we don't give their importance a second thought, which is why we are at risk of losing the very rights that make us free and prosperous.
		By protecting the right of individual restaurateurs to use their own property as they saw fit, southern governments would have created a system wherein individuals were free to decide with whom they wished to do business and to associate, or not.
		If thugs, murderers, and vandals were destroying property and intimidating property owners, then the state should have interceded on behalf of property rights and the right of property owners to serve whomever they pleased.
	www.propertyrightsresearch.org /property_rights6.htm (3506 words)

	Nevada Property Owners Bill of Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In all eminent domain actions, prior to the government's occupancy, a property owner shall be given copies of all appraisals by the government and shall be entitled, at the property owner's election, to a separate and distinct determination by a district court jury, as to whether the taking is actually for a public use.
		If private property is taken for any proprietary governmental purpose, then the property shall be valued at the use to which the government intends to put the property, if such use results in a higher value for the land taken.
		Property taken in eminent domain shall automatically revert back to the original property owner upon repayment of the original purchase price, if the property is not used within five years for the original purpose stated by the government.
	www.propertybillofrights.com /your_rights.html (3396 words)

	Rights
		Negative rights, such as the right to privacy, the right not to be killed, or the right to do what one wants with one's property, are rights that protect some form of human freedom or liberty,.
		Where negative rights are "negative" in the sense that they claim for each person a zone of non-interference from others, positive rights are "positive" in the sense that they claim for each person the positive assistance of others in fulfilling basic constituents of human well-being like health and education.
		Positive rights, therefore, are rights that provide something that people need to secure their well being, such as a right to an education, the right to food, the right to medical care, the right to housing, or the right to a job.
	www.scu.edu /ethics/practicing/decision/rights.html (1446 words)

	'Owning property has become a privilege, not a right
		For the past 25 years in California and across the country, property rights have eroded to the point where owning property is a privilege, subject to the whims of local, state and federal government agencies as well as a host of other special interest groups.
		Those who assert their rights are derided in the popular press as ``greedy." Just look at what happened to members of Metallica when they appeared before a Senate committee asserting their rights to their own music.
		Property rights are one of the few rights not celebrated in song, curiously enough, because fewer of them means less artistic expression.
	www.citizenreviewonline.org /july_2003/owning.htm (749 words)

	The Hindu : Women's right to own property around Kolleru lake endangered
		Ownership of property continues to be a male domain in the social life of the people in the villages in the plus five contour of the lake.
		And the rights over the property deems to be transferred again to the male children after the death of the widows.
		Noticeably, the women were found to be not assertive about their property rights because of poor awareness and literacy levels, although not ignorant of their rights guaranteed by a `State amendment' effected to The Hindu Succession Act, 1556, during the tenure of N.T. Rama Rao as the Chief Minister in 1986.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/11/20/stories/0420201f.htm (767 words)

	Environmental Policy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Property rights" advocates often hearken back to the days of the Western expansion and the homesteaders as the time when men and women were really free to do as they pleased with their land.
		The actions were required because of the recognition of the interrelationship and the interdependence of the properties and the desire to meet the social, political, and economic needs of the sum of the landowners, and the nation as a whole, even if it meant restricting the "freedom" of the individual land owner.
		Both screech about how their right of free speech or their property right is sacred, but neither wants to accept the responsibilities of free speech or property responsibilities.
	www.law.georgetown.edu /gelpi/takings/rypkema.htm (4136 words)

	Food: a fundamental human right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Despite the fact that the right to food is recognized directly or indirectly by all countries in the world, hunger, whether caused by war, drought, natural disaster or poverty, continues to cause widespread suffering.
		Ensuring the right to adequate food and the fundamental right to be free from hunger is a matter of international law, specifically enshrined in a number of human rights instruments to which states around the world have committed themselves.
		To be able to enjoy the right to food fully, people need access to health care and education, respect for their cultural values, the right to own property and the right to organize themselves economically and politically.
	www.fao.org /Focus/E/rightfood/right1.htm (570 words)

	Robert V. Andelson / On Property Rights
		The term "property rights" refers to one of the most fundamental human rights - the right of human beings to own property.
		Therefore, to usurp property legitimately acquired is logically the same as cutting off so many hours from its producer's life, the only difference from murder being that the hours are past instead of future.
		For no king ever had a moral right to legalize the spoil of conquest; no legislature a right to alienate the patrimony of a nation; and no court a right to vest perpetually in any family that which the Creator made for all.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /andelson-robert_on-property-rights.html (510 words)

	Ugandan Women Struggle for Property Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The right to own property is a key component of freedom.
		Though women are allowed to own property according to some legal provisions, they are effectively stripped of these rights by customs that make them the property of their husbands.
		This tale of a grassroots outcry by women for property rights is another sign that international attitudes are moving away from aid-based strategies for economic development towards property-rights strategies.
	www.pacificresearch.org /pub/con/2001/01-09-21.html (555 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is the right to own ones own body and the labor of that body.
		Property is the basis for economic self-determination, economic and social mobility, community economic stability.
		The Liberal believes that the public has the dominate right to determine how property should be used, that it must serve the general public's needs first and that individual use is only a subordinate privilege as suffered by the community.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/786001/replies?c=8 (605 words)

	Idaho Observer: Do Americans have the right to own property?
		We are allowed to live on their property until we stop paying taxes, at which time government has given itself the right to sell it and move you out by force, if necessary.
		The notice itemizes the process whereby ownership of the property was conveyed to Doan and how the deed describes her right to, “grant, bargain, sell, convey and confirm unto her heirs and assigns forever, all that certain parcel of real property,” and was recorded with the Idaho County Recorder's office May 24, 1996.
		Cain believes that the property, of which he has an interest, was illegally disposed of by the county under the authority of a law that is either a secret or a fraud.
	proliberty.com /observer/20010902.htm (828 words)

	Charter of Rights and Freedoms- hardly!
		The Charter also guarantees all permanent residents the right to "pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province", unless, of course you are a construction worker living in Ottawa, Ontario and wish to work in Hull, Quebec.
		The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not guarantee the right to own property, which is one of the primary rights that are essential to the functioning of any democracy.
		If you are not specifically granted the right to privately own property, then there is no guarantee that you will not be deprived of your property, lawfully or otherwise.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/klaus052605.htm (762 words)

	By What Procedures can Individuals come to own Private Property?
		In general, for property rights to exist at all, there must be, at some point, an embodiment of a person in external things through an action done with an intention to claim property rights that are recognized by others.
		Therefore, because he is not seeking property right s to the wall, even so he has drawn on it and mixed his labor with it, he does not own it.
		It is intended to justify a set of practices and principles for that social institution to define rights of ownership, as well as the specific conditions under which an individual may obtain those rights, and the properties which may be owned.
	www.indyflicks.com /danielle/papers/paper07.htm (2016 words)

	Women’s Right to Own Property (2005-09) - UNIFEM Fact Sheets - About Us - UNIFEM
		The fundamental importance of women’s property rights has been repeatedly underscored in international agreements, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which refers to the right of rural women to equal treatment in land and agrarian reform processes.
		Women’s property rights are an implicit part of achieving the first Millennium Development Goal, on eradicating extreme poverty, and the third, on promoting gender equality.
		And to complement the stronger policies, UNIFEM is working to spread the word about women’s land rights among the general public, including by training journalists to report on the issue, and a cohort of legal advisers to assist rural women and educate local officials.
	www.unifem.org /about/fact_sheets.php?StoryID=304 (952 words)

	Utah Republicans Pursue Forfeiture of Right to Own Property
		In consideration of these provisions in Utah's previous forfeiture law, Initiative B enacted a uniform forfeiture procedure that restores the right of innocent citizens to own property.
		Allows property seized by Utah police to be transferred to the federal government to eliminate the protections of the Utah Constitution and Utah law.
		Confiscated property will be given to seizing agency, instead of State Treasurer, shifting law enforcement emphasis from criminal prosecution to fundraising.
	www.fear.org /gaunt-2003-02-03.html (769 words)

	Guide to Eminent Domain for Virginia Property Owners
		Property ownership is a cherished constitutional right that separates citizens of the United
		Rights) that no property shall be taken without just compensation and due process of law.
		It is the right of the government, the sovereign, to take property for the public good.
	www.vapropertyrights.org /articles/96guide.html (766 words)

	Archive \| November 1998 \| Strengthening property rights
		Approval of my amendments to the Bill of Rights would allow Canadians to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights knowing that we have finally provided the protection of property rights in federal law that the UN Declaration called for so many decades ago.
		Not only did the government arbitrarily ban this legally-owned property but they are refusing to pay compensation for either the loss in value suffered by this government-enforced theft but they are refusing to pay compensation for the legally-owned firearms that they are going to confiscate.
		The right to life is the source of all rights - and the right to property is their only implementation.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1198propright.htm (2914 words)

	FRB: Speech, Greenspan--Intellectual property rights--February 27, 2004
		A society without state protection of individual rights, especially the right to own property, would not build private long-term assets, a key ingredient of a growing modern economy.
		Whether we protect intellectual property as an inalienable right or as a privilege vouchsafed by the sovereign, such protection inevitably entails making some choices that have crucial implications for the balance we strike between the interests of those who innovate and those who would benefit from innovation.
		In the case of physical property, we take it for granted that the ownership right should have the potential of persisting as long as the physical object itself.
	www.federalreserve.gov /boarddocs/speeches/2004/200402272/default.htm (2109 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The right to own property is fundamental to the American way of life.
		The proposed new law does several things, including placing time restrictions on eminent domain so that property owners are not left in limbo for years at a time; requiring appraisers to be licensed Hoosiers; and mandating good-faith negotiations between the condemner and the property owner.
		Perhaps most importantly, the bill protects the right to own property by requiring that any other reasonable alternatives must be taken before resorting to eminent domain.
	www.in.gov /S50/2-14-06.htm (356 words)

	Minuteman Message Board :: View topic - Women Gained the Right to own property in 1981!
		Women Gained the Right to own property in 1981!
		KIRCHBERG V. A woman's right to own property was not declared by the Constitution until this case was argured and won!
		If a woman's right to own property was unrecognized by the Constitution, how did unmarried women wind up buying their own houses?
	www.renewamerica.us /bb/viewtopic.php?t=3568&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (552 words)

	FAO : Debating the right to food
		Some 21 States have already enshrined food rights explicitly in their national constitution, while many more recognize and protect closely related rights, such as the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to social security, minimum wage and care for specifically vulnerable groups.
		To be able to enjoy the right to food people need access to health care and education, respect for cultural values, the right to own property and the right to organize themselves economically and politically.
		The guidelines are intended to provide governments with a practical instrument to implement the right to food for their population and to fulfil a basic obligation to their peoples.
	www.fao.org /english/newsroom/news/2003/24059-en.html (427 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: High court to rule on right to seize private property
		WASHINGTON — Property rights in the United States are at a constitutional crossroads.
		Homeowners say their constitutional right to own private property is being violated.
		Residents say it amounts to a land grab, with the city taking their property and giving it to a private developer for $1 a year in the hope that commercial development will yield more taxes than private homes have.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002186397_scotus22.html (797 words)

	Property Rights: The Key to Freedom, Prosperity AND Equality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The right to own and enjoy property is the fulcrum on which all other rights
		court, "The right to 'enjoyment of property' is not a constitutionally
		Property rights were on and off the table in under a dozen minutes.
	www.citizenreviewonline.org /mar_2003/property.htm (3213 words)

	Independent Conservative » Blog Archive » The Right to Not be Rich
		But when it is done by way of removing current property owners by force, instead of allowing them to remain in their homes and businesses as long as they can afford the taxes, it displaces the poor in favor of the rich.
		If your property is not giving your local government the tax revenue they desire, they now can simply take your property and pass you a check for what they feel is reasonable.
		Conservatives have proven they are protectors of the rights of both rich and poor to own property.
	www.independentconservative.com /2005/12/04/riviera_beach_mayor (975 words)

	ESR \| October 7, 2002 \| Property rights take a hit
		A long-planned October rally in Collier Country, Florida calling itself the "Sawgrass Rebellion" to support property rights, imploded and was cancelled in the face of a determined effort to deny it the right to meet anywhere.
		That's what happens when homeowners discover their property in part of a "view shed" and are told to become "willing sellers" to their government.
		The government, by the mandate of our Constitution, has the responsibility to protect these rights and, from the very beginning, private ownership of the land was granted as a right of the people.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1002/1002proprights.htm (707 words)

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