Constitutional scholar Bill Norton walks Jenny Beth Martin through the equation at the heart of the Declaration of Independence: life plus liberty equals property. Drawing on John Locke, Norton explains why property is the fruit of what you do with your life and liberty, why taking someone's property means taking a piece of their life, and why that principle is the strongest answer to the Marxist claim that workers are being robbed by the people who employ them.
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00:00 — The Marxist challenge to property
00:57 — Life plus liberty equals property
02:30 — John Locke and the right to what you make
03:25 — Steal the property, steal the life
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