Social Dimension

and
Social Mortgage

Reporter: Dindo, Remea Mae B.

 Social
Dimension: • In 1910, the Liberal Party Governments of New Zealand is
Legal and organized.
• First under journalist John Ballant, followed by Richard
Moral Basis
John Seddon and Sir Joseph George Ward, after his death.
• They win a program of land reform and social legislation.
This gained New Zealand worldwide recognition and
approval.
• Large speculative landholdings we’re broken up under the
provisions of a number of statutes that enabled the
government to acquire large holdings for subdivision and
authorized the purchase of small landholdings on long-
term mortgages.

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 SOCIAL DIMENSION
OF
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP

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 SOCIAL
DIMENSION ▹ Nationalization, in broad economic terms, is the governmental
OF appropriation of property other than land, transferring it from
PRIVATE the domain of private property to national control.
OWNERSHIP ▹ As the social philosophers are working double time to grapple
for some criteria for distinguishing the specific forms of
property that merit protection from other general forms, which
may be sacrificed for overriding public uses, there is also a need
for new criteria to determine the legal rightfulness of the
government action of "takeover" of private properties.
▹ Juridical basis for "sequestration." In a number of juridical
cases (all of them American), a rule was developed through the
years, which suggested that private property could be taken for
a public purpose or common interest.

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 SOCIAL
DIMENSION ▹ As the fruit of collective wisdom, the result is a legal ground for
OF the social dimension of property right, the same rule providing
PRIVATE the state with an enormously widened authority to take over
private property.
OWNERSHIP
▹ Midkiff, where he also discovered that the law has widened the
"public use doctrine" by establishing that property could be
taken for purposes of re-distribution (in economic
redevelopment programs involving re distributive purposes,
whether egalitarian or inegalitarian).
▹ In short, that the right to private property is not an absolute
right is true in the legal sense, and its justification is grounded
on civil law.

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• A Mexican farm worker cuts sugarcane by
hand.
• Mexican agriculture, which includes the
raising of livestock, provides employment

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for about one-quarter of the country's
workers.
Land reform, introduced in 1915,
Sugarcane
reorganized about half of the country's
agricultural land into ejidos, or communal
farms.
Harvest,
Mexico
• Along with small family farms and the
larger haciendas, ejidos sustain a himself:
a history of early American variety of
crops including sugarcane.

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 SOCIAL
DIMENSION ▹ The book rewards the reader with an able treatment of a
OF significant number of subjects to which the author primarily
devotes views of property; an account of the constitutional history
PRIVATE of private property: a modern history of the expansion of public
OWNERSHIP use doctrine; and a critical analysis of contemporary debates on
"takings.
▹ " In his encyclical on human labor, Pope John Paul II has taught
with authority that property right has a social dimension:
"Christian tradition has never upheld this right (to private
property) as absolute and untouchable, On the contrary, it has
always understood this right within the broader context of the
right common to all to use the goods of the whole of creation: the
right to private property is subordinated to the right to common
use, to the fact that goods are meant for everyone" (Laborem
exercens, 14).

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 SOCIAL
DIMENSION ▹ Whoever takes what is essential for himself is not violating
OF the right to private property, for those things taken are his
PRIVATE by natural right.
OWNERSHIP
▹ This is the principle documented in Gaudium et Spes,
taught by the Second Vatican Council, attended by more
than two thousand Catholic bishops from five continents,
after a prayerful reflection on the subservience of private
property to the common good.

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Social Mortgage
 Social ▹ Everyone's right to private property is under what Pope John
Mortagage Paul Il called "social mortgage," which teaches among others
that our property right has a social function intrinsic to itself,
based upon and justified precisely by the principle of the
universal destination of the goods and resources of the earth.
▹ Private property, in fact, is under a "social mortgage," which
means that it has an intrinsically social function, based upon
and justified precisely by the principle of the universal
destination of goods.
▹ By virtue of the social mortgage of private property, the
natural right to private property is subordinated to the
universal destination of earthly resources.

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 Social ▹ It usually happens that, in the daily grind of our social life,
Mortagage when the social obligations to the common good are
overlooked, the natural right to private ownership leads to
selfishness and avarice - along the "iron-clad way of making
a lot of money.
▹ " Thus history has taught us that it may not be impossible
that whenever its social character is forgotten, personal
ownership can often become the source of greed and serious
disorder, even among brothers (Vatican Council II, Pastoral
Constitution Gaudium et Spes, para.

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