China has amended its constitution, officially protecting private property for the first time:
Five decades after sweeping to power, a period during which private property has been nationalized and bloody campaigns have been waged against landlords, China's parliament amended the constitution to add the clause: "Private property obtained legally is inviolable."Boy, don't you wish our Constitution said that?
(Or at least that our Supreme Court justices would stop pretending that it didn't say that?)