...forthright exposition of the judicial vision of the era: The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property,...is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands, and to hinder him from employing...

...sacred rights of property are sacrified to the support interests of public revenue." und weiter S. 1 36: "The property which every man has in his own labour,...it is the original foundation of all other property (Hervorhebung, HE), so it is the most sacred and inviolable." Es gibt also Eingriffsrechte in Eigentum...

...his/her unemployment. My 18th century arguments against such restriction seem to me as valid as ever: The property which every man has in his own labour,...dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor, is a plain...

...Addressed to the Yeomanry (Philadelphia: Oswald, 1792), 10. Cf. Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1:138: "The right which every man has in his own labour, as it is the...property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." 45. Manning, Key of Liberty, 136. 46. Howe, American Self, 5. 47. Moses Mather (assumed author), America's...

...without injury to his neighbor, Smith insists, is a violation of the "most sacred property." Indeed, "[t]he property which every man has in his own labour,...property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable" (Smith [1776] 1976a, I. xc, 12, 138). In his "Lecture on Justice," part of a series of lectures given...

...that of his corporation, but that of his customers'. Guild restrictions injured the ordinary labourer: 'The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength...dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain...

...apprenticeship restrains it more indirectly, but as effectually, by increasing the expense of education .... The property which every man has in his own labour,...dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain...

...views as expressed in his Second Treatise (1690 [1980]) and his Essay (1691b [1991]). When Smith says 'the property which every man has in his own labour,...property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable', his views on property are the same as Locke's. 'Whatever then [man] removes out of the state that nature...

...claim that property in labor itself must be yet more deeply rooted than property in material things: "The property which every man has in his own labour,...property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable" (138). He then uses this fundamental property in ones labor to oppose the Statute of Apprenticeship,...

...to it an apprenticeship of seven years at least. The property which every man has in his own labour, the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. To hinder a poor man from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without...