"First and most obviously, homes are private property. Your house is…

"First and most obviously, homes are private property. Your house is your possession. You have a personal, exclusive right to occupy it, to bar others from entering it, to safeguard it with locks and alarms and fences, and to sell or give it to someone else. The United States of America, on the other hand, is nobody’s possession. It’s a sovereign political jurisdiction, a commonwealth — not a chattel that you or anyone else can dispose of at will. The proprietary authority you have within your home does not extend to your neighbor’s home, let alone to the street and sidewalk outside your door, still less to the public square downtown or to the highway that leads out of state. You can’t put up a wall to exclude travelers from the next town over. The territory of your neighborhood, your state, or your country is not something you own."

Via @[10605968:2048:Adam Bates]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/01/03/locking-your-house-not-like-locking-border/qH6OTRoIbs0Ord05k8QSlO/story.html