“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.”

Absolutely. This is the basis of the American republican form of government. It may be sufficiently obvious, but the assault on the rights of persons and property has been incessant.

A signal, what ought to be universally understood, self evident Truth of the nation's founding.

True, all western govts were invented to protect property, it was the market who wrote the original laws of equality based on monetary values.