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Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment breaks new ground in our understanding of the genesis of property rights in the United States.
See generally William W. Freehling , Prelude to Civil War : The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina , 1816-1836 ( New York : Harper and Row , 1965 ) . For a discussion of the standoff , see id . at 260-297 .
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