ABSTRACT
Neither property nor government are given, transcendental or self-subsistent. Both are artifacts and the issues at stake in both theory and practice relate to how they are to be further worked out. The overriding tendency in the property/ government discourse is to selectively reify property and government when both are, arguably in point of fact, politically constructed-meaning a function of choice and power. This discourse often involves the reification and projection to independent ontological status of socially constructed structures of property and government.
