Mary Ann

Run Amok

Glendon, in The Responsive Community (Fall 1991), 714 Gelman Library', The George Washington Univ., Washington,
D.C. 20052.

Under the spell of philosopher John Locke and the lectures on law of Sir William Blackstone, Americans from the beginning talked about property rights as if they were absolute. In practice there was a good deal of public regulation of property. The Fifth Amendment, for example, recognized the federal government's power of eminent domain. But the ext...