The guardian of every other right [electronic resource] : a constitutional history of property rights / James W. Ely, Jr.
Series: Bicentennial essays on the Bill of RightsPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 216 p. : illISBN:- 9780195323320 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780195323337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 323.4/60973 22
- KF562 .E54 2008eb

Includes bibliographical references (p.185-198) and index.
The origins of property rights : the colonial period -- The Revolutionary era, 1765-1787 -- "Property must be secured" : establishing a new constitutional order -- The development of property rights in the antebellum era, 1791-1861 -- The Gilded Age and the challenge of industrialization -- Progressive reform and judicial conservatism, 1900-1932 -- The new deal and the demise of property-conscious constitutionalism -- Property rights and the regulatory state.
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