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Syllabus for LS 140 Pride and Prejudice John Locke

Property in Eve Online Rousseau on Property and Inequality

Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto J.S. Mill - Principles of Political Economy

George - Progress and Poverty George - Ode to Liberty Finkelman -Batter Up

Popov v. Hayashi Treaty of Waitangi Johnson v. McIntosh Dawes Act

Somerset v. Stewart Bryan v. Walton State v. Mann State v. Boyce

Rose - Property Law and the Rise, Life, and Demise of Racially Restrictive Covenants

Shelley v. Kraemer Bell v. Maryland

Sumner - What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class

Roe - Backlash Cassidy review of Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-first Century

Ostrom - Sustainable Development Boomer v. Atlantic Cement

Dan Ariely Ted Talk Dan Pink Ted Talk Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon

Just v. Marinette County Kelo v. New London

Reich - The New Property - Read pp 771-777 Goldberg v. Kelly

Lessig - Free Culture - Read Chap. 5 Lessig - Remix (Optional Source)

SF Homeless Project

The Treaty of Waitangi

Preamble

HER MAJESTY VICTORIA Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favour the Native Chiefs and

Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order

has deemed it necessary in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand and the

rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress to constitute and appoint a functionary properly

authorized to treat with the Aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty's Sovereign authority over the whole or any part

of those islands – Her Majesty therefore being desirous to establish a settled form of Civil Government with a view to avert the evil

consequences which must result from the absence of the necessary Laws and Institutions alike to the native population and to Her subjects

has been graciously pleased to empower and to authorize me William Hobson a Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy Consul and Lieutenant

Governor of such parts of New Zealand as may be or hereafter shall be ceded to her Majesty to invite the confederated and independent

Chiefs of New Zealand to concur in the following Articles and Conditions.

Article the First

The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the separate and independent Chiefs who have not become

members of the Confederation cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation all the rights and powers of

Sovereignty which the said Confederation or Individual Chiefs respectively exercise or possess, or may be supposed to exercise or to possess

over their respective Territories as the sole Sovereigns thereof.

Article the Second

Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and

individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which

they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the

United Tribes and the individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Preemption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may

be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to

treat with them in that behalf.

Article the Third

In consideration thereof Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them

all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects.

W HOBSON

Lieutenant Governor.

Now therefore We the Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand being assembled in Congress at Victoria in Waitangi

and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our

respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter into the same in the full

spirit and meaning thereof: in witness of which we have attached our signatures or marks at the places and the dates respectively specified.

Done at Waitangi this Sixth day of February in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty.

James Madison

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