> In a medieval village, whether a strip of land belonged to Hodge the cotter or to the local squire, or to the vicar, everyone knew when it was to be plowed, what was to be planted in it, when the grain was to be cut, and when the cattle were to be let in to eat the stubble. You took responsibility for your own land in that if you worked it well you got a better harvest, but that was as much power of decision as you had. The redistribution of land under the Enclosure Acts had for its purpose putting the fields into the hands of people who could decide what to do with them-shifting from grain to sheep in the fifteenth century, introducing new crops and new forms of tillage in the eighteenth and nineteenth.^[Rodes, Robert E. “THE RIGHT TO PRIVATE PROPERTY. By Jeremy WalDron.• New York: Oxford University Press. 1989. Pp. Viii,.” CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 7 (n.d.): 7.]