E Archer hits it right on the head. It doesn't give carte blanche to the property owners to subjugate and enslave the lower class, but to have rights to their own property i.e: to not succumb to majority public pressure to divide up property owners' land amongst everyone equally (at the time), which could be easily done given the large difference in numbers. It secured rights for everyone, as well as separate rights fro property owners from the tyranny of the majority. Unfortunately now the government is enormous and owns everything. America looks more like the baloney constitutional monarchy I live in Canada than a free republic. I sure hope you guys do something about it so I have something to fight for.