TY - BOOK AU - Ely,James W. TI - The guardian of every other right: a constitutional history of property rights T2 - Bicentennial essays on the Bill of Rights SN - 9780199851508 (ebook) : AV - KF562 .E54 2008 U1 - 323.4'6'0973 23 PY - 2008/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Right of property KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This title chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls. It book emphasizes the interplay of law, politics, ideology, and economic change in shaping constitutional thought and provides a historical perspective on the contemporary debate about property rights UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323337.001.0001 ER -