“The concept of property itself had come up out of the common law and carried with it the idea of a natural, or common-law rights of liberty to acquire, use and dispose of physical things.”

— John R. Commons

Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 32

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United States institutional economist and labor historian 1862–1945

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