Edward J. Erler | Property and the Pursuit of Happiness

Edward J. Erler is professor emeritus of political science at California State University, San Bernardino. He earned his B.A. from San Jose State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. He has published numerous articles on constitutional topics in journals such as Interpretation, the Notre Dame Journal of Law, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He was a member of the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights from 1988-2006 and served on the California Constitutional Revision Commission in 1996. He is co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration and author of Property and the Pursuit of Happiness: Locke, the Declaration of Independence, Madison, and the Challenge of the Administrative State.
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  • @bradbarnett5464
    @bradbarnett54643 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for carrying so many torches Hillsdale, lets pray The Lord that future generations take a firm hold as they're passed down.

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE THE BASIS FOR A SELF-GOVERNING PEOPLE. "THE FIRST PERSON YOU MUST LEAD AND DISCIPLINE IS YOURSELF" LIEUTENANT GENERAL HAROLD G. MOORE

  • @carlloar3234
    @carlloar32344 жыл бұрын

    Boy oh boy everyone in the D C needs to hear this man spike! They all have forgotten this!

  • @YourPledge
    @YourPledge4 жыл бұрын

    2nd... lol Thank you for bringing us to a higher level of living!

  • @brendalee1135

    @brendalee1135

    4 жыл бұрын

    1A and 2A, both important for pursuit of happiness. 3rd. Haha

  • @wesfortney5294
    @wesfortney52944 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation besides the mis-characterization of the occupy wall street movements perspective. The protests (not riots haha) was an effort to root out corruption and not a socialist attempt to redistribute wealth arbitrarily for equality. The movement was focused on the rule of law and it failed miserably; it was a fart in the wind. Mr. Erler is rightfully confounded as to what action can be taken to restore the rule of law and the constitutional republic. What is there to do to a state that neglects it's every legal duty in favor of betraying the foundational rights to liberty, privacy , and property. I am certain that violence will escalate between the state and citizens until a finality is reached and a pause in violence will occur until tyranny forces violence again. It has always been this way for humans. But for a brief moment of history our ancestors forged the freest, most prosperous union of peoples ever manifested and did so by their sheer fortitude, if ever in history there was a great action by a peoples to grab their boot straps and lift themselves up, it was then. And now we have a diseased and rotting carcass of corruption and tyranny to beat us down until violence becomes the only option. Hurray for that happy day when battle will once again decide champions and adversity forges mediocre dolts into men of glory.

  • @onebigteddybear
    @onebigteddybear4 жыл бұрын

    What book is he talking about at 1:05:50?

  • @onebigteddybear

    @onebigteddybear

    3 жыл бұрын

    Anyone??

  • @tomalesbay

    @tomalesbay

    Жыл бұрын

    @@onebigteddybear "Essay on Human Understanding" by John Locke

  • @tomalesbay
    @tomalesbay Жыл бұрын

    The full rights of private property are not enforced in corporate equity, something the founding fathers could not foresee because the situation didn't really develop until well into the industrial revolution. If you own shares of a corporation, then according to the bundle of rights of control under private property, you are entitled to your share of the profits earned by that corporation. The result is that we have a casino-like stock market, where capital gains are favored over income, and a new aristocracy that is quickly becoming our modern day oligarchy.

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard10004 жыл бұрын

    1st

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    "FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO GET CLEAR OF THE DIFFICULTIES IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS TO STATE THE DIFFICULTIES WELL; FOR THE SUBSEQUENT FREE PLAY OF THOUGHT IMPLIES THE SOLUTION OF THE PREVIOUS DIFFICULTIES, AND IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO UNTIE A KNOT WHICH ONE DOES NOT KNOW." ARISTOTLE; METAPHYSICS; BOOK III. SECTION 1.

  • @kirkbowyer3249

    @kirkbowyer3249

    4 жыл бұрын

    "FOR WHAT IS IT THAT WORKS, LOOKING TO THE IDEAS? ANYTHING CAN EITHER BE, OR BECOME, LIKE ANOTHER WITHOUT BEING COPIED FROM IT, SO THAT WHETHER SOCRATES EXISTS OR NOT A MAN MIGHT COME TO BE LIKE SOCRATES; AND EVIDENTLY THIS MIGHT BE SO EVEN IF SOCRATES WERE ETERNAL." ARISTOTLE; METAPHYSICS; BOOK I. SECTION 9.

  • @tomalesbay

    @tomalesbay

    Жыл бұрын

    "...THE POLICY OF WITHHOLDING CORPORATE DIVIDENDS ...DESTROYS THE INSTITUTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE PRIVATE PROPERTY IN CAPITAL IS THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE ALL THE NET INCOME ONE’S CAPITAL PRODUCES" -- Louis O. Kelso

  • @o.g.grandpa7292
    @o.g.grandpa72924 жыл бұрын

    A man that can barely afford the land can not afford to retire because taxes and penalties threaten to take away his hard earned home only the people who have a pile of money left when they reach retirement age can afford to retire

  • @David-kd5mf
    @David-kd5mf4 жыл бұрын

    I think a discussion on anti federalist papers would be a fascinating video in future

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    SAINT JOHN 8:32 AND YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH: AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE. SAINT JOHN 14:6 JESUS SAITH TO HIM: I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME.

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    ECONOMIC FREEDOM IS A NECESSARY INGREDIENT FOR HUMAN LIBERTY TO FLOURISH.

  • @abramgaller2037
    @abramgaller20374 жыл бұрын

    Property is basic to all other rights.

  • @o.g.grandpa7292
    @o.g.grandpa72924 жыл бұрын

    Property ownership does not lead to happiness when they threaten to take it away every year over taxes the american dream oh boy

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    "LET US AGAIN RETURN TO THE GOOD WE ARE SEEKING, AND ASK WHAT CAN IT BE. IT SEEMS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT ACTIONS AND ARTS; IT IS DIFFERENT IN MEDICINE, IN STRATEGY, AND IN OTHER ARTS LIKEWISE. WHAT THEN IS THE GOOD OF EACH? SURELY THAT FOR WHOSE SAKE EVERYTHING ELSE IS DONE. IN MEDICINE HEALTH, IN STRATEGY VICTORY, IN ARCHITECTURE A HOUSE, IN ANY OTHER SPHERE SOMETHING ELSE, AND IN EVERY ACTION AND PURSUIT THE END; FOR IT IS FOR THE SAKE OF THIS THAT ALL MEN DO WHATEVER ELSE THEY DO. THEREFORE, IF THERE IS AN END FOR ALL THAT WE DO, THIS WILL BE THE GOOD ACHIEVABLE BY ACTION, AND IF THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE, THESE WILL GOODS ACHIEVABLE BY ACTION." ARISTOTLE; NICOMACHEAN ETHIC; BOOK I. SECTION 7.

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    "ON ALL THESE GROUNDS, THEREFORE, WE MAY INFER WITH CONFIDENCE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING BEYOND THE BODIES THAT ARE ABOUT US ON EARTH, DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE FROM THEM; AND THAT THE SUPERIOR NATURE IS PROPORTIONATE TO ITS DISTANCE FROM THIS WORLD OF OURS." ARISTOTLE; ON THE HEAVENS; BOOK I. SECTION 2.

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    "ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY." PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

  • @OCTNH

    @OCTNH

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kennedy is refering to this country as his idealized regime rather than the founding fathers in which your benefit to this country is in his personal. No, party's interest. What I'm saying here: democrats such as Kennedy wanted you to benefit this country by voting for them to transform this country into a socialist regime and the integration of their ideological fallacies within the functionality of this nation and our people. No, Kennedy didn't turn this into socialism, rather he's drawn us closer. That is if you let them.

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer32494 жыл бұрын

    "A NATION OF LAWS NOT OF MEN" JOHN ADAMS 1776

  • @kirkbowyer3249

    @kirkbowyer3249

    4 жыл бұрын

    "LAW & ORDER COVERS IT." J. EDGAR HOOVER