Property Rights and Poverty: Political Argument in Britain, 1605-1834
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1990
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- Title
- Property Rights and Poverty: Political Argument in Britain, 1605-1834
- Author
- Horne, Thomas A.
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807819123
- ISBN 13
- 9780807819128
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Horne first considers the writings of Hugo Grotius, the Dutch philosopher and jurist who laid out the terms for the debate over owning property as a natural right. Like later natural law theorists, Grotius was concerned with the question of how God's grant of the earth to all humanity could be reconciled with the idea of owning private property. Horne continues by surveying the writings of a wide range of political thinkers--John Locke, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, and many others--in order to follow the progress of the property rights debate in England through the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries.
According to Horne, virtually every defense of property rights written during this period carried with it a self-limiting feature that took into account the welfare rights of those without property. Thus, while British political thought typically defended individual property rights as consistent with--even demanded by--natural law, it also insisted that all individuals had a right, under some circumstances, to the use of resources necessary for their welfare. The right to exclude and the right to be included were not understood as necessarily contradictory or antagonistic aspects of a just property arrangement. Instead, the problem posed by the tradition of property theory presented here was how to recognize both property rights and welfare rights in a single legal code.
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"A remarkably compelling examination of liberal theory's many different conceptions of private property and of the duties of property holders to the impoverished."--"American Political Science Review"
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