Private property as a right

Does the 14th amendment guarantee private property as a right?You know what is interesting about the 14th amendment, that I just noticed now? It doesn't guarantee private ownership of property specifically, it just states that "...nor shall any state deprive any person of...property". Technically, it is not denying or depriving people the right to property by making it a law that all privately-owned businesses have to be transitioned into cooperatives(which are democratically-controlled businesses owned communally by the workers. For all intents and purposes, they are essentially a socialist business model) since technically the person still owns that property, just they are sharing it with their workers. So, the 14th amendment does seem to lack defining specifically that private property is a right, it just states property in general, and not specificaly private property. If a state were to implement socialism, it thus, doesn't violate this amendment technically. Though, I don't claim to be an authority on interpreting the United States constitution, that is, of course, up to the supreme court, but I don't think the supreme court has ever ruled that the 14th amendment protects private property specifically. But, it seems like this interpretation may not be incorrect. I am not aware of any supreme court case that specifically says the 14th amendment protects private property, and that forcing property to be communally owned would be in violation of the amendment. Considering how unpopular socialism is in the Uniated States, I doubt this question have ever been raised to the supreme court. If my opponent knows such a supreme court case, I invite them to present it. An "acquired" rightI completely agree that property is an acquired right, however, I imagine where we would disagree is with who should own the property? Technically workers are working very hard, so should not the property of a business be communally owned by the workers of that company instead of a single or a few business owner(s)? One could argue that the business owner is denying the workers' rights to have property. Seeing as 32.6% of Americans are not property owners[1] and white people own 98% of all available property in the USA[2] people are being denied the ability to achieve property ownership. John Locke once said:"Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property. It being by him removed from the common state nature placed it, it hath by his labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other Men. For this Labour being the unquestionable Property of the Labourer, no Man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others." [3]First, I'd like to point out again, that these words are not specific enough to indicate that a person is entitled to own property all on their own, and not communally. Perhaps my opponent can point out a specific instance where John Locke specifies that property is something a single individual needs to own(privately) rather than communally with others. What I'd like to point out next is the last sentence, specifically this part: "...no Man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others."In America, there is clearly not enough property out there for people to have, so many are being denied their right to have property from the fruits of their labors because all of the property is owned already, either by the government(which I also view as repulsive) or by other people. I believe the best way to solve this issue is to transition into a society that has communal property. There is not enough land out there for all of us to have some, so in order for people to be compensated properly for their work, there needs to be a forced redistribution of property for everyone to own some who works. So, depending on how you see it, then the government may have a responsibility to make sure that those who work are properly compensated and given the business as communal property. They are working for it after all, and who says the business owner worked harder for it than his or her workers? I would guess that most cases, a business owner needed to get a bank loan to start their business or inherited money for it, so they clearly didn't work for that money There may be a few business owners out there who did work for years, and finally bought a business after years of work, but I believe they are in the minority. I tried looking up statistics on this to see how many business owners actually worked up over the years money to buy or start a business, but my search turned up no results. Once again, I would ask my opponent to see if they can help on the matter. So, since property is an acquired right based on the fruits of our labors, why should someone who didn't work for control of that business, have control of that business? I might be getting off-topic here, so I'll move on. Agreement with opponent:I also view it as repulsive for the government to be determining the prices of property(in addiiton to how much land the government owns), but this doesn't seem to be something that proves private property is a right. I believe my argument is complete and I have adequately raised doubt that specifically, privately-owned property is a right as opposed to communally-owned property. Keep in mind, we are debating on private property as a right, and not property in general as a right. I believe property in general is a right, but I don't believe private property is. Sources:[1] https://en.wikipedia.org...;[2] http://inequality.org...;[3] John Locke, Second Treatise on government