Aug 24, 2021
Conservatives need a holistic conservative jurisprudence that draws from traditionalism, economics, constitutionalism, and natural law.
Yesterday, I posted on how usage at the time of the Constitution might have employed the term private property to mean the type of property that private parties can own — and therefore governments might own private property. Seth Tillman of the National University of Ireland at Maynooth writes in to note that Justice Story’s famous concurring opinion in the 1819 Dartmouth College case described the property of a municipal (that is government) corporation as private property:
Conservatives need a holistic conservative jurisprudence that draws from traditionalism, economics, constitutionalism, and natural law.