The right to property, or the right to own property, is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their private property. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution i
John Locke's 1689 Two Treatises of Government in which Locke calls "lives, liberties and estates" the "property" of individuals
The labor theory of property, also called the labor theory of appropriation, labor theory of ownership, labor theory of entitlement, and principle of first appropriation, is a theory of natural law th
John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London