Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2956

Penciling by Heath on notepad paper stapled to similar paper with penciling of early material from Chapter 25 of Citadel, Market and Altar, “Administration of Property as Community Services.” This may have been some lines intended for that chapter.

Acquiring land by title is the alternative to taking it by force and holding land by title is the alternative to holding /and/ defending it by force.

  Acquiring land by negotiation of title is the social alternative to the taking of it by force, and holding it under title is the alternative to defending possession by force.

  Where ownership, non-political as distinguished from sovereignty, is acknowledged and respected the title gives security of possession without need for defense either by or against force and arms. Only the title and not the land or its

______ can be the object of attack or defense.