I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills where there were all these kids and animals running around.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Even before he came to power in 1997 Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary nor freeze his account nor seize his property on behalf of his children in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring market-friendly innovations.

It is clearly better that property should be private but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life secondly to liberty and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.