Wherever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) US President (1801-09)
Letter to James Madison (28 Oct 1785)

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