Beltway Books: Capital(ist) punishment

Funding its opponents, capitalism is its own worst enemy | Doug Bandow

The foundation of the American republic is the right to own property. It was widespread property ownership that made the New World so different from old Europe-yeoman farmers were independent of the elites with commercial and political power.

But the right to own property is threatened today. The Marzullas-Nancie heads up Defenders of Property Rights, while Roger formerly served as Assistant Attorney General-have written a handbook covering constitutional protections for property, legislative threats to private ownership, litigation against the government, and needed legislative reforms. Hopefully Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, who wrote the foreword for Property Rights, will use his position to help implement the book's recommendations.

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