right of property

"Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up North America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside."--Publisher.

The Civil War was over by the spring of 1865, and all the Confederate armies had surrendered, but for the victors, the peace was marred by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The long, painful process of rebuilding a united nation free of slavery began. The 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865, ended slavery in the United States.

Tabitha, a young girl from the city, goes to spend the summer in southeast Georgia with her father, and along with Mable, a woman who lives near the Okefenokee Swamp, try to solve the mystery of why someone wants to lay claim to Mable's homestead in the swamp.

Examines private property rights in America in accordance with the interpretation of the Fifth Amendment; and includes essays that debate the government's right to seize private property for public use.

Discusses the growth of the Wise Use/Property Rights movement, a general heading for a variety of right-wing anti-environmentalist groups, examines their motives, and reveals some of the tactics they have used to thwart efforts at preserving the environment.

Analyzes property rights in the context of constitutional and private law from the late colonial era to the present, explaining how property rights were established, defended, and sometimes reinterpreted.

Tabitha, a young girl from the city, goes to spend the summer in southeast Georgia with her father, and along with Mable, a woman who lives near the Okefenokee Swamp, try to solve the mystery of why someone wants to lay claim to Mable's homestead in the swamp.

A collection of fourteen controversial essays that debate issues concerning the Fifth Amendment power of Eminent Domain, which maintains that the federal government or the state has the power to take private property for public use.