Abstract
Although there are many scholarly treatments of American Founders' understanding of property and economics, few of them present an overview of the complete package of the principles and policies upon which they agreed. America has abandoned the Founders' views on the gold and silver standard, the prohibition of monopolies, the presumption of freedom to use property as one likes, freedom of contract, and restricting regulation to the protection of health, safety, and morals; but in other respects, America continues to offer a surprising degree of protection to property rights in the Founders' sense of that term. Tables.