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Freedom associates authority with responsibility. In a society that respects individual liberty and private property, a property owner has every incentive to use his property wisely and well.

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Liberty Garden takes on confiscatory court ruling
Another Landgate-related case now pending o­n appeal is Shaw v. County of Santa Cruz wherein it is being argued that Landgate is no longer the law due to the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Lingle v. Chevron.     Bullet9 Read more...    Written by Michael Zumbrun
What is Private Property?
Free enterprise seeks and achieves the objective of ecological health, as Liberty Garden also demonstrates. There, a former weed lot now supports a wild wonderland with a plethora of productive native plants, which in turn support an array of indigenous species. Like the forester's land, Liberty Garden proves that if people are free to create voluntary associations, the laws of economics and the consequence of stewardship will cause the earth to improve. What's good for the property owner who remains free to pursue his enlightened self-interest is also good for the earth.     Bullet9 Read more...    Written by Michael Shaw
After Decades of Abuse - The Challenge to Restore Property Rights in California
In 1939 Winston Churchill struggled with the task of forecasting the actions of Russia:  “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”  The same can be said of the jurisprudential state of the United States Constitution’s takings clause, as set forth in the Fifth Amendment:  “[N]or shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”      Bullet9 Read more...    Written by Ronald A. Zumbrun
The Necessity of Government
Political-economic theory in America is increasingly losing its compass. Sustainable Development activists promote policies of unlimited government intervention and many intellectuals promote the opposite side of the political spectrum – anarcho capitalism. This 30 year old essay charts the course for a political-economic theory predicated o­n reason and logic – the necessity of limited government. From the Freeman, April 1974.

     Bullet9 Read more...    Written by David Kelley
   
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Shaw v Santa Cruz County: Shaw Appeals  

Disincentives preclude innovation  
“Because of the Endangered Species Act—what developer or land owner would want to purchase or own the land and do what we are doing? Disincentives preclude innovation. It is no wonder that no o­ne else is following this common sense formulation for success: Pull the weeds and manage the plants and the hydrology.”

- Michael Shaw

Liberty Garden takes on confiscatory court ruling  

“Twenty-five years ago, the Court posited that a regulation of private property ‘effects a taking if [it] does not substantially advance [a] legitimate state interes[t]... Today we correct course.  We hold that the ‘substantially advances’ formula is not a valid takings test, and indeed conclude that it has no proper place in our takings jurisprudence.”

-Ron Zumbrun

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