Probably one of the hardest sections of this constitution for people to accept is that I am basically against the rental of homes and businesses. I have come to this opinion by reading the writings of the Popes. In the time of the Kings, they owned all the land and only let people use the land in exchange for working the land. Large grants of land and homes were taken from some people and given to others just for pledges of loyalty or to gain a treaty. The rights of individuals were not even considered.

Today there is another kind of oppression by people with lots of money. They use their money to buy up large tracks of land and sit on it for years just to have a monopoly on land and then make millions selling it or building large apartment complexes and renting them out to those who cannot afford land or homes. The reason they cannot afford land or homes is because these people have bought up all the land and hoarded it.

If, however, everyone was paid a just wage as described by St. Pope Leo XIII as being a wage that would allow a single person to buy and own a home, and if people were not allowed to hoard property without using it for the common good, then all could afford a home of their own.

I am totally against landlords but admit there are some areas where this must be, like at the Universities, or for vacations and tourists. People, however, are better citizens who have ownership in a peace of the Nation. Everything possible should be done to encourage people to own their own land and work it.

A nation should protect the family at all costs. One way to protect a family is to make it very hard to get married when the man does not have the proper means to support a wife and children. This can be done by making laws against marriage when the man has not a place of his own and an income to afford a family. This will also encourage the ownership of homes. Often people marry too soon and end up with costs that do not allow them to buy a home. If, on the other hand, they bought the home before they married and left the home of their parents, they would have the money before they started a family.

Banks would be encouraged to finance homes with low interest rates. Even the government taxes themselves would be used to encourage ownership. Inheritance would be protected and never taxed. But land unused would be homesteaded by anyone who showed the government that it would be used for production and/or the good of the nation. Land abandoned by a family could be taken by the government and homesteaded. A man's primary home (that which he lives in) could not be taken in a bankruptcy.