In this clip from Lesson 2 of The Jenny Beth Show founding-principles series, constitutional scholar Bill Norton lays out the equation at the center of the American idea of property. Starting from John Locke, he shows how your time and your choices become your property, and why that means life, liberty, and property are inseparably connected. When government takes your property, Norton argues, it is really taking the life and liberty you traded to earn it.
Bill Norton is the author of Behind the Bill of Rights and a recurring guest on The Jenny Beth Show. Watch the full lesson and the rest of the series at jennybethshow.com, and get involved with Tea Party Patriots Action at teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — Time plus choices equals property
00:20 — A paycheck, broken down to its real cost
01:41 — Why life, liberty, and property are inseparable
02:07 — Take the car, and you steal the life behind it
05:05 — Life plus liberty equals property
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