Reinstate the Homestead Act

May 05th 2009 Posted in Tick Talk

Seems that two hundred years ago this nation had the same problems it has now and here is one of the ways they fixed the problems:

Legislation: The Homestead Act.

Signed by: Abraham Lincoln

Leader: George Henry Evans

Ideals: The Working Men’s Declaration of Independence.

Publication: The Radical (fancy huh?)

Grass Roots Group: Working Man’s Advocate (WMA)

Title: The Free-Soil Movement

Motto: “Vote yourself a farm.”

History: Evans immediately began a public inquiry into the cause of the misery of the working man. A report published in the WMA (July 1844) rendered his conclusions. He wrote,

“We are the inhabitants of a country which, for boundless extent of territory, fertility of soil, and exhaustless resources of mineral wealth, stands unequalled by any nation, either of ancient or modern times…. And, yet, we allow those elements to lie dormant, that labor which ought to be employed in calling forth the fruitfulness of Nature is to be found seeking employment in the barren lanes of a city, of course, seeking it in vain.”

The report denied the authority of Congress either to withhold land from citizens or to grant it to well-connected speculators. Such privileged speculators, he claimed, “lay our children under tribute to their children.” They practice “a cruel and cowardly fraud upon posterity.” His solution? To “establish the right of the people to the soil; to be used by them in their own day, and transmitted … to their posterity.”

Sample: (see above)

OR —> Expand the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to include John Locke’s justification of ownership; namely, mixing labor with the land. This also RESTORES the inalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of land.

See: The Radical, Evans (April 1841),

Land is not the product of labor; property is any thing produced by labor. Therefore, I say, land is not property. A monopoly of land deprives some of their just and natural means of acquiring property; with equal rights (including the right of land) guaranteed, an accumulation of property in the hands of individuals could not prevent others from acquiring property, as it now can; nor do I think there could be any excessive accumulation as there now is.

Comments(8)

DD

Here Here!

I will let Thomas Jefferson do my thinking on this matter.

“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:36

“A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.” –Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:490

“[We in America entertain] a due sense of our equal right to… the acquisitions of our own industry.” –Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:320

“He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 1788. ME 19:41
elljay66

Stable ownership is the gift of social law
DD

Here Here!

I will let Thomas Jefferson do my thinking on this matter.

“The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:36

“A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.” –Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:490

“[We in America entertain] a due sense of our equal right to… the acquisitions of our own industry.” –Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:320

“He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Bancroft, 1788. ME 19:41
elljay66

Stable ownership is the gift of social law
http://www.briankeithanderson.com 1modelcitizen

DD – one word: RESPECT! You brought it home splendidly.

The best design was delivered in the beginning (like, Genesis).
There is a fully developed garden. A man and a woman fall (in love).
They get moved out. They toil together with their kids. They make bread. They have flocks. They have fruit trees and vegetables. It's a simple existence but they were happy.

I like the above approach. No taxes, rents, mortgages, indentured servants, slaves, serfs, or such.

What we need right now is a HaNadiv HaYadua (well-know benefactor) like Baron Edmond De Rothschild – the “Father of the yishuv.” Where are great men like unto him today?
http://www.briankeithanderson.com 1modelcitizen

DD – one word: RESPECT! You brought it home splendidly.

The best design was delivered in the beginning (like, Genesis).
There is a fully developed garden. A man and a woman fall (in love).
They get moved out. They toil together with their kids. They make bread. They have flocks. They have fruit trees and vegetables. It’s a simple existence but they are happy.

I like the above approach. No taxes, rents, mortgages, indentured servants, slaves, serfs, or such. The land is free and the people are free.

What we need right now is a HaNadiv HaYadua (well-know benefactor) like Baron Edmond De Rothschild – the “Father of the yishuv.” Where are great men who are like unto him today?

dd

God was good enough to give Adam and Eve that chance to fail in the free world. The first thing they did (after getting dressed) was worship the one whom they had offended. People now a days would be all pissed at the old land lord and blaming him for putting the forbidden fruit in the perfect garden.

The great thing about being one with the land and god is that you and he allow natural laws to govern the whole affair. Man cant self govern without giving god all the credit. Our nation is in a ruinous state because man kind wants to get away from god. By nature we are all rebellious and unique. When the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve finally relent and allow god to run the show again; and manage our lives we will have found Zion.

dd

God was good enough to give Adam and Eve that chance to fail in the free world. The first thing they did (after getting dressed) was worship the one whom they had offended. People now a days would be all pissed at the old land lord and blaming him for putting the forbidden fruit in the perfect garden.

The great thing about being one with the land and god is that you and he allow natural laws to govern the whole affair. Man cant self govern without giving god all the credit. Our nation is in a ruinous state because man kind wants to get away from god. By nature we are all rebellious and unique. When the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve finally relent and allow god to run the show again; and manage our lives we will have found Zion.

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