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This 7 page paper considers the development of constitutional private property rights tracing these from the ideas Sparta and Ancient Greece to the Modern European Union and United States. The paper discusses the right to property in a number of the constitutions and/or other systems for protecting "rights". The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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which may be seen as the basis of capitalism. The basis of property ownership rights may be seen as a basic right, it is the basis of most current economic
development and the work of philosophers such as Hobbes argued that t is with the secure private ownership of property that resources will used most efficiently (Collinson, 2000). The way
property ownership is seen in different constitutions is as a right, but it is a right to have ownership, this is not a right to property, and where the right
is recognised there are always constraints on those rights. The possession of property may be defined as "de facto control of assets, whether corporeal or incorporeal, without formal title
but state-of-affairs" (Anonymous, 2005). Property is also defined broadly, which may include physical assets such as land and goods, but also incorporeal property, for example intellectual property rights (Anonymous, 2005,
Ivamy, 2000). The idea of private ownership being against the interests of the state and requiring constraint, or even abolition may be traced back to ancient civilisations. The founder
of Sparta; Lycurgus, restricted private property ownership (Anonymous, 2005). The notables saw the abolition of private ownership of property in lieu of state ownership. In Sparta it was the state
that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 2005). Sparta was not alone with this view of the potential dangers and conflict that could be
caused by private property ownership. Looking to Ancient Greece there was further support for this concept of private ownership. Plato, in the republic argues that it is ownership which is
at the heart of civil strife, with Athens seeing the conflicts "commonly originate in a disagreement about the use of the terms mine and not mine, his and not
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