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“It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of man. Men have a sense of property: Property is necessary to their subsistence, and correspondent to their natural wants and desires; its security was one of the objects, that induced them to unite in society. No man would become a member of a community, in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labour and industry.”

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William Paterson
William Paterson

William Paterson, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born on December 24, 1745, and died on September 9, 1806. He served as a politician and legal scholar during the American Revolutionary War and played an active role in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. more

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