...government of Connecticut conferred on him just that privilege. "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property," wrote the British jurist William Blackstone. For the right of property is "that sole and despotic dominion...

...in the eighteenth century, took up the theme, stating 'there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property'. Like, Locke he reconciled mankind's common dominion over the world conferred on him by the Creator...

...Blackstone, in his Commentaries (volume 2, p. 2), says: "There is nothing which so general I v strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property, or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,...

...a classic on the development of law, Blackstone says: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property." This is especially true with regard to property which is to be a home. In that same chapter the author...

...created by the State. Macpherson, CB (Canada, 1973) 18. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. William Blackstone(England, 1766) 19. Give a man a fish and he will eat it. Give a man a fishing gear...