"The first and chief design of every system of government is to maintain justice; to prevent the members of a society from incroaching on anothers property, or siezing what is not their own. The design here is to give each one the secure and peacable possession of his own property.”~ Adam Smith, from his Lectures on Jurisprudence [emphasis mine]
[Hat tip Adam Smith Works]
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