The guardian of every other right
Subtitle: a constitutional history of property rights
By: James W. Ely, Jr.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Bicentennial essays on the Bill of Rights
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195323320; 9780195323337
Subjects: Right of property -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of property rights: the colonial period; title: The Revolutionary era, 1765-1787; title: Property must be secured: establishing a new constitutional order; title: The development of property rights in the antebellum era, 1791-1861; title: The Gilded Age and the challenge of industrialization; title: Progressive reform and judicial conservatism, 1900-1932; title: The new deal and the demise of laissez-faire constitutionalism; title: Property rights and the regulatory state; title: Epilogue notes.