Grammar has power, so do logic and rhetoric. Learn your grammar, for its structural reasoning is the architecture of lawful thought.
Together, they form the original trivium—> the foundation of law and philosophy. Grammar expresses relationship, logic orders it, and rhetoric gives it resonance. So here we go. These are grammar capsules.👇
The Body as Property under Law
Under Natural Law and Common Law, property begins with the body and its faculties. John Locke, whose Second Treatise on Government shaped the Declaration of Independence, wrote:
“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself.”
From this premise, life, liberty, and property form a trinity—>life as the source of liberty, liberty as the expression of property. Any law or mandate that compels medical treatment, bodily submission, or biometric surrender without consent or due process constitutes a taking of private property under Natural and Common Law.
The Fifth Amendment states*: “Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Interpreted fully, this applies to any forced use or invasion of the body; the first and highest form of property.
Statutory Law, which operates as public policy rather than higher law, separates bodily autonomy from property, allowing coercion under “police powers” (Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 1905). This creates the central divide:
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Natural / Common Law: The body is sacred property; consent is absolute.
Statutory / Public Policy: The body may be regulated under a “compelling state interest.”
This boundary defines the private and the public. The body is the first property right, and any act imposed without informed consent is a trespass against both property and liberty.
Universal Principle
Natural Law predates all governments. It forms the foundation of the Anglo-American system and remains valid in the United States, England, Canada, and Australia. Its principles are universal:
You own your body, labor, and capacity to act.
Consent is the precondition for any lawful claim upon your person.
Violation of bodily autonomy is trespass upon property and liberty.
Common Law in all these nations upholds this doctrine. The principle in Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital (1914) affirms that “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body.”
In England, the Human Rights Act (1998) enforces this under Article 8, and in Australia, Rogers v. Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479 affirms bodily integrity and informed consent.
The Modern Conflict
Across jurisdictions, public policy statutes; health, emergency, or biosecurity acts create temporary administrative authority to override consent under “compelling state interest.”
Thus:
Private Law: Consent-based, rooted in property and liberty.
Public Law: Permission-based, regulating subjects.
Basically
The principle of the body as property is universal. Every human being holds an inherent right of self-ownership and bodily autonomy. No law, statute, or administrative order can lawfully compel an act upon the body without informed consent; except by presumed consent under statutory jurisdiction, which can and must be rebutted.
*The Constitution recognizes certain rights; it does not create them. Lawful order exists to acknowledge what already belongs to life itself.
