{"id":288,"date":"2006-03-30T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2006-03-30T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T23:23:51","slug":"bernard-siegan-propery-rights-advocate-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Siegan &#8211; Propery Rights Advocate Dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110008162#He%20Was%20a%20Child%20of%20Madison\">Best of the Web<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">&#8220;Bernard Siegan: <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">Reaganite and   University of San Diego law professor Bernard Siegan, died on Monday at age  82.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\">In a  pathbreaking 1980 book, Mr. Siegan challenged the view set out by the New Deal  Supreme Court in 1937 that property rights are somehow inferior to other rights  and deserve lesser protection. Gail Heriot, a colleague at the University of San  Diego, summarized Mr. Siegan&#8217;s thinking this way: &#8220;What&#8217;s yours is yours, what&#8217;s  mine is mine, and the government does not have unlimited power to take that  property or to tell us what to do with it.&#8221; Who could have given him such a  crazy idea? It was James Madison, the father of the Constitution, who wrote:  &#8220;Government is instituted to protect property of every sort&#8230; that alone is a  just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110008162#He%20Was%20a%20Child%20of%20Madison\">Read more<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Best of the Web &#8220;Bernard Siegan: Reaganite and University of San Diego law professor Bernard Siegan, died on Monday at age 82. In a pathbreaking 1980 book, Mr. Siegan challenged the view set out by the New Deal Supreme Court in 1937 that property rights are somehow inferior to other rights and deserve lesser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}