Leigh Thomas Brown argues that private property ownership is essential to liberty because owners are harder to displace and control than renters. He points to Federalist No. 10 as evidence that the framers saw property as a safeguard against tyranny, and warns that policies keeping people in tenancy threaten freedom.
That, my friends, is what was done so that you could have the freedom to look at this video today, so that you would have the freedom to buy and sell real estate, because it wasn't available to you in any other place on Earth except in the new place that they created with this amazing experiment. And in those Federalist Papers— so please go back and read what the framers wrote. I know some of y'all been out of school for a while, but go pick up the Federalist Papers, number 10. And you'll see the intense conversation about property. They were so intent on making sure that it was the central focus of those early documents because people who own their little piece of dirt are very, very stubborn. They are very hard to move. And if you wonder why there's such a push to keep people as tenants and renters, it's because renters can be moved, property owners cannot. They are very stubborn, they are very independent, and they are liberty-minded.
