Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 2: The Rights of Englishmen; 3: Interpreting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; 4: Judicial Interpretations of Property Rights Prior to the Fourteenth Amendment; 5: The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; 6: The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; 7: Concluding Remarks

About the Author

Bernard H. Siegan is distinguished professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is the author of Property and Freedom: The Constitution, the Courts, and Land-Use Regulation, The Supreme Court's Constitution, and Economic Liberties and the Constitution, all published by Transaction.

Reviews

-Beginning with their English roots in the Magna Carta, the author documents the views of various British thinkers such as John Locke, William Balckstone, and Lord Coke, clarifying how their views on property rights influenced American law and the constitutional framers such as James Madison. The book moves from Colonial experiences to analysis of the various ways the Constitution, including the 5th and 14th Amendments, and state contitutions have defended property rights against goverment action....Suitable to augment collections on American law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and American history.- --Choice

-Siegan's life work has been to make a historical and legal case to extend economic liberties, including the rights of ownership. He makes his case brilliantly in this book.- --Liberty

"Beginning with their English roots in the Magna Carta, the author documents the views of various British thinkers such as John Locke, William Balckstone, and Lord Coke, clarifying how their views on property rights influenced American law and the constitutional framers such as James Madison. The book moves from Colonial experiences to analysis of the various ways the Constitution, including the 5th and 14th Amendments, and state contitutions have defended property rights against goverment action....Suitable to augment collections on American law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and American history." --Choice

"Siegan's life work has been to make a historical and legal case to extend economic liberties, including the rights of ownership. He makes his case brilliantly in this book." --Liberty