PART 5

Property Rights

Chapter Twenty-Four

A Man’s Home

is His Castle

“A man’s home is his castle”

—civil rights attorney Clarence Darrow when defending Ossian Sweet on a charge of murder in 1925 after an angry mob approached his home.

“Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”

—Fifth Amendment to the Constitution The city of New London, Connecticut sits at the junc-

tion of the Thames River and the Long Island Sound, 120

mile...

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