"your first mistake is using English law as a reference for American law"

Actually, US land law is modeled on English land law with respect to allodial title.

Allodial title is reserved to the government.

Seems that GBusa and victor were the only ones who bothered to notice the misattribution.

Open the following document in Adobe Reader if you're interested:

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/makingrev/crisis/text6/bostonpamphlet.pdf

That's what you've got?

Your resort to ad hominem attacks signals that you're destitute in addressing the points.

"titled property has always been different than owned property" ...

In the realm of real estate (land), a title (fee) is, and, as far as our history (the history of the US) goes, always has been the one and ONLY way one 'owns' property.

With respect to the quote in question, that's the only point that needs to be made regarding the validity of the supporting (given) argument.

entomology:
the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects. Perhaps you meant etymology, perhaps not.

As for the Constitution having been rewritten with respect to land (real estate) law:
Land law in the US has never been other than what it is today in the way title to an estate is held by individuals or entities like corporations. Ask any real estate attorney.

Like I said, you may not like the way it is but the facts remain.

It's not something you have to agree with for it to be true.

From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_simple

It works this way in the United States as well - most of our estate law derives directly from British law.

"In English law, a fee simple (or fee simple absolute) is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. It is the way that real estate is owned in common law countries, and is the highest ownership interest possible that can be had in real property. Allodial title is reserved to governments under a civil law structure. Fee simple ownership represents an ownership interest in real property, though it is limited by government powers of taxation, eminent domain, police power, and escheat, and it could also be limited further by certain encumbrances or conditions in the deed, such as, for example, a condition that required the land to be used as a public park, with a reversion interest in the grantor if the condition fail; this is a fee simple conditional."

In simple terms what this means is that the assertion that "it’s my land, and I’ll protect it" is factually incorrect. The land belongs to the United States who 'grants' an 'owner' a deed in fee simple.

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis

Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion . . . and rejected ethical altruism.

It's no wonder given her bourgeois Russian upbringing.

Under her doctrine we would never have built the interstate highway system.

Cognitive dissonance anyone?

I second that.

True Christianity, in its missionary zeal has indisputably, as recorded by the 'victors', murdered millions of indigenous peoples and plundered their cultures just as it has given rise to inquisitions (we're here to help) and crusades and witch hunts and, in the ways still possible, is still at it in places like Uganda. True Christianity still molests children.

True Christianity has an ignominious history perfect for this quote as demonstrated in true form by the comments.

Well, just as I thought it was. Thanks for making my point with more words than called for.

That's weird.

I thought the welfare of humanity was always the alibi of bible-thumpers.

Henry David Thoreau died young.

Hmmm, . . . I wonder, was it a natural death?

Hey, let's kill some US citizens without due process.

We'll use drones. They're safe and won't put anybody in harm's way. We'll call it 'surgical' operation. Doesn't that sound beneficial?

Our Constitution may (by now) be partially colorblind but its purported adherents, in large measure, are not.

Hey Robert, it's Sarasota - no? LOL Nice to see you back.

26% of the American population doesn't know that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

"... just 74% of Americans know the Earth revolves around the sun." -

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/18/opinion/kirshenbaum-science-literacy/ .

Everyone chooses their own favorite 'chains' and they're welcome to them.

Sad but true.

At this point the experiment has failed miserably.

Human nature has won out - again.

Has Krauthammer said anything in the last 5 to 10 years?

As far as I know he's still alive.

More sunset clauses please.

Marie Parente seems to have a grasp on the obvious. No sitting down required.

The only caveat may be the extant or absent property of elasticity which seems to be in limited supply.

Oh Dennis, you're such a card.