Government is instituted to protect property of every sort

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"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well
that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which
the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government,
that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man
whatever is his own."
--James Madison

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