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Subject Area: Political Theory
Collection: Classics of Liberty
Topic: Natural Law and Natural Rights
Topic: Property

Thomas Hodgskin, The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted [1832]

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The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted. A Series of Letters, addressed without permission to H. Brougham, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. (London: B. Steil, 1832).


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In this series of letters to Lord Braugham Hodgskin distinguishes between the natural right of property (based upon Lockean principles of natural law) and the artificial right of property (which is decreed by parliament). He associated the doctrine of the artificial right of property with Benthamite reformers who were attempting to reform the English state.

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