Property and citizenship are in many ways what define us, and they interact in fascinating ways.
To understand how property ownership strengthens people’s ability to enjoy full citizenship – and here we are talking about civic identity and the ability to enjoy economic and civil rights as opposed to legal citizenship – you don’t have to go back to the ancient Greeks and Romans who based the right to vote on landownership (and gender and age). Indeed, the link between property ownership and civic rights is clear in any reading of U.S. or European history.

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