BY FROMA HARROP In Olde England, hunting was the privilege of the landed and the rich. The right to hunt depended on the number of acres owned or one’s income. This inequity led English jurist William Blackstone to complain in the late 18th Century that “50 times as much property [is required] to enable a man to kill a partridge as to vote for a knight of the shire.” English colonists settling America wanted no […]
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