The principle of subsidiarity acts as a brake upon the natural development of all civil governments to expand their powers. Where and when mistakes of civil government occur, the principle of subsidiarity limits the extent of damage to individual rights and to the spheres of private civic life. A virtue of limited government is that the ill effects of its actions are limited, as well. We are both spiritual and corporeal beings. Private property is the necessary extension of the body of the human being into the world of things and nature, and which also becomes an instrument of spirituality.
Private property is the intimate link between the individual person and the surrounding world.
Private property confirms a human being as a free personality, satisfying the rights of independent action and self-responsibility. It invokes spiritual reasons for hard work, liberates creative initiative and enterprise, and provides self-confidence and confidence in others. The perversion of justice, by the institution with enforcement power of the sword, is equivalent to abolition of law followed by its replacement with arbitrary will and political power. Accordingly, we reject theories and forms of sovereign immunity, just as we advocate impartially-administered justice for all people. The education of children is a responsibility of parents and family, not civil government.