An idea from On Duties

Protecting property is named as the main reason governments exist. Cancelling debts and redistributing land count as robbery, and the Gracchus brothers, who pushed land reform, are listed among the justly killed. The father fought debt cancellation as consul, and this is a property owner’s case.

From On Duties by Cicero

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