> If you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it. It seems like a simple constitutional right to me. However, if a group of people wan

> If you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it. It seems like a simple constitutional right to me. However, if a group of people want to make a legally enforceable agreement between themselves for their mutual benefit, then it shouldn't be possible for one of them to renege on that agreement later. See also: easements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easement). You can own property but if an easement exists then you can't do whatever you want with it. If easements were suddenly unenforceable, chaos would ensue. So the matter is certainly not as simple as "if you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it".