In James Madison's view, for example, property "embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right, referring to all of a person's legal rights. Property as conceived in the founding era included not only external objects and people's relationships to them, but also all of those human rights, liberties, powers, and immunities that are important for human well-being, including: freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom from bodily harm, and free and equal opportunities to use personal faculties.
-Whiteness As Property by Cheryl I. Harris Harvard Law Review
Volume 106 June 1993 Number 8 pg.1726
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