"America's Founders understood clearly that private property is the foundation not only of prosperity but of freedom itself. Thus, through the common law, state law, and the Constitution, they protected property rights"
https://www.cato.org/cato-handbook-policymakers/cato-handboo...
Of course, as large absentee owners themselves, the Founders were only too happy to let that consequence of Lockean theory slide, just as they were able to write "all men are created equal" while keeping men in slavery. But that merely shows that Upton Sinclair's quote, cliché as it may have become, still holds an inescapable truth.
The fact remains property is required to exercise any right. I wish the US would go back to only landowners being able to vote. Would realign society IMO
I also believe the corporations having rights of a human without the punishment is a problem on that side. If a corporation breaks the law they should put the C level and the board in jail just like they would any other person.
Things are imbalanced on both sides and the concept the US is not a Republic but is a Democracy is being sold so propaganda machines can manipulate the public.
Term limits on congress, remove the ability of congress to vote themselves raises and get bribes via lobbying. Eliminate the poor from being able to vote themselves other peoples money... things like this would set is off to a better direction.
2. Whenever somebody starts telling me what the Founding Fathers thought I expect some BS which is only there to support their opinion and is so lopsided that it might as well be called a lie.
Folks who say this assume they have a right to someone else's labor aka slavery
Completely nonsense in a modern society.
If you read the article I posted, you'd see that your cursory objection is thoroughly false:
> Proudhon was clear that his opposition to property did not extend to exclusive possession of labor-made wealth.