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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER 1: ThE ENGLISHNESS OF RIGHTS 9 Bestness of Rights 11 CHAPTER 2: RIGHTS IN GENERAL 16 Continental Rights 17 Right to Petition 21 Rule of Law 23 Timelessness of Rights 24 CHAPTER 3: ThE RIGHT TO PROPERTY 27 The Centrality of Property 29 Liberty and Property 31 CHAPTER 4: ThE RIGHT TO SECURITY 34 Government and Property 36 CHAPTER 5: ThE RIGHT TO GOVERNMENT 39 Representation and Property 41 The Definition of Property 44 CHAPTER 6: ThE JURY RIGHT 47 The Value of Jury 48 The Threat to Jury 52 The British Analogy 55 vii viii CONTENTS CHAPTER 7: EQUALITY OF RIGHTS 60 The Equality Dilemma 62 CHAPTER 8: AUTHORITY OF RIGHTS 65 The Immemoriality of Rights 67 Statutory Rights 71 Rights by Custom 72 CHAPTER 9: CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY 74 Rights at Law 75 The End of Government 78 CHAPTER lO: ThE RIGHT TO ISONOMY 82 Equality in Rights 83 The Imperial Inequality 85 CHAPTER 11: ThE AUTHORITY OF NATURE 87 Natural Rights 88 The Irrelevancy of Natural Rights 90 The Mythology of Natural Rights 92 CHAPTER 12: RIGHTS AS PROPERTY 96 The Vocabulary of Property 98 The Tenure of Rights 101 CHAPTER 13: PROPERTY IN RIGHTS 103 The Property Imperative 106 The American Language 107 The American Inheritance 109 The Importance of Property 111 CHAPTER 14: THE AUTHORITY OF MIGRATION 114 The Significance of Migration 115 The Right of Migration 118 The Expectation of Migration 120 The Purpose of Migration 121 The Equality of Migration 122 CHAPTER 15: ThE MIGRATION PURCHASE 124 The Cost of Migration 125 The Physical Purchase 127 The Value-Added Purchase 129 CHAPTER 16: ThE ORIGINAL CONTRACT 132 The Theory of Contract 134 The Reality of Contract 136 The Terms of the Contract 137 CHAPTER 17: ThE ORIGINAL COLONIAL CONTRACT 139 The Implied Colonial Contract 141 The Taxation Stipulation 145 CONTENTS CHAPTER 18: THE REALITY OF CONTRACT 146 The Specificity of Contract 149 The Contract of Promise 150 The Proclamation Contract 153 The Rule of Campbell v. Hall 155 CHAPTER 19: ThE EVIDENCE OF CHARTER 159 The Contract of Charter 160 The Rights of Charter 162 The Probativeness of Charter 164 CHAPTER 20: THE COLONIAL GRIEVANCES 169 The American Complaints 173 CHAPTER 21: THE ADMIRALTY GRIEVANCE 177 The Procedural Grievances 178 The Civil-Law Grievance 179 The Inequality Grievance 181 CHAPTER 22: THE DUTY OF RIGHTS 184 The Duty to Transmit 185 The Duties to Preserve and Defend 187 CHAPTER 23: ThE EXIGENCY OF RIGHTS 190 The Search-Warrant Grievance 193 CHAPTER 24: ThE ISSUE OF RIGHTS 199 The Rights Instructions 200 The Seriousness of Rights 205 CHAPTER 25: ThE CAUSATION OF RIGHTS 209 The Motivation of Rights 211 The Motivation of Constitutionalism 216 CHAPTER 26: THE REDRESS OF RIGHTS 218 The Redress of Grievances 220 CHAPTER 27: CONCLUSION 227 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 241 SHORT TITLES 243 NOTES 317 INDEX 364 ix CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ...

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