Despotic DominionIn the late 18th century, the English jurist William Blackstone famously described property as that sole and despotic dominion. What Blackstone meant was that property was an absolute right, inherent in every Englishman . . . which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all acquisitions without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land. In light of the intervening 250 years of colonization, Blackstones despotic