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2346. EARTH, Equal Rights in.—[continued].

If, for the encouragement
of industry, we allow the earth to be
appropriated, we must take care that other
employment be provided to those excluded
from the appropriation. If we do not, the
fundamental right to labor the earth returns
to the employed.—
To Rev. James Madison. Ford ed., vii, 36.
(P. 1785)